Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March 29 that it had arrested three people from "a Central Asian country" who were plotting an attack in the south of the country.
The U.S. ambassador to Russia on March 29 issued an unusual diplomatic statement refuting Russian government claims about information that the United States shared with Russia ahead of the terrorist attack last week on a concert hall outside Moscow that killed more than 140 people.
A protest to demand the dismissal of a professor at a university in Serbia entered its second day on March 29 as other faculty members and students of the school held a rally to demand an end to the blockade.
A court in Moscow on March 29 formally charged Russian journalist Antonina Favorskaya with participating in the activities of late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was labeled as extremist in 2021. On February 15, Favorskaya recorded the last video of Navalny at a court hearing he was taking part in via video link from an Arctic prison. The next day, Navalny suddenly died in the prison. The journalist faces up to 6 years in prison.
A court in Moscow on March 29 formally charged Russian journalist Antonina Favorskaya with participating in an extremist organization in connection with alleged posts to websites and social media platforms tied to the foundation founded by late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.
An ethnic Uzbek living in Russia told Current Time how he and other migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were detained by Moscow police and interrogated following the attack on an entertainment venue near the Russian capital in which over 140 people were killed. He said several Tajiks were beaten and remained in detention following his release.
A year after the arrest of Evan Gershkovich in Russia, the Wall Street Journal reporter’s family pledged to continue to fight for release from a Moscow prison where he is being held on espionage charges the White House and his employer say are fabricated.
Tajik authorities detained nine people this week in connection with the March 22 attack on a concert hall near Moscow, local media reported on March 29, citing a security source.
Chinese contractors have halted construction on two major dam projects in Pakistan after a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver this week, a provincial official told AFP on March 29.
After the Soviet collapse, Moscow and Washington took steps to exchange intelligence and terrorist warnings, an effort that was ramped up after the September 11, 2001, attacks. For veteran spies like Putin, however, old habits die hard. The Crocus City Hall attack is Exhibit A.
