Garun Kurbanov, the head of the analytical department and press service of the Dagestan Republic's leader, was shot dead in Makhachkala early on Thursday, an interior ministry spokesman said.
// Jul. 28, 2011 - 05:16 GMT
Former Yukos oil company boss Platon Lebedev was taken back to the Velsk Regional court on Wednesday morning for the second day of his parole hearing.
// Jul. 27, 2011 - 06:34 GMT
The mayor of the Afghan city of Kandahar was killed and another person was wounded on Wednesday morning in a terror attack, local radio station Salam Vatandar reported, quoting a local police force commander.
// Jul. 27, 2011 - 06:16 GMT
Two people suspected of involvement in a 2010 terrorist attack on a power plant in southern Russia will go on trial, a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee said on Wednesday.
// Jul. 20, 2011 - 07:32 GMT
A senior Russian police officer was killed in an attack in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Thursday, police say.
// Jul. 14, 2011 - 09:10 GMT
Akhmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, was killed in the city of Kandahar on Tuesday, a source in the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
// Jul. 12, 2011 - 07:42 GMT
Two civilians, a serviceman and two suspected militants were killed in a gunfight which broke out in Russiaâ™s restive North Caucasus republic of Dagestan late on Wednesday, police said. </p>
// Jul. 07, 2011 - 05:57 GMT
The imam of a village mosque in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan was shot dead on Tuesday morning, the Dagestani Interior Ministry said.
// Jun. 14, 2011 - 05:43 GMT
Former Yukos oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sentenced to 13 years in a normal regime prison for tax evasion and embezzlement, will leave his Moscow detention cell and be sent to a prison to serve out the rest of his sentence, his lawyer Natalya Terekhova said on Friday.
// Jun. 10, 2011 - 08:30 GMT
A DNA test proved that a girl's body found near Moscow in early April was that of the missing daughter of an executive at Russia's second largest oil producer, investigators said on Thursday.
// May. 12, 2011 - 07:45 GMT