Russia declassifies files on victims of Stalinist purges
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Â· Archives cover worst excesses of Soviet eraÂ· Disappointment that only relatives will get access
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Russian officials investigating the crashes of two passenger planes have discovered the remains of two Chechen women thought to be &quot;Black Widows&quot; - suicide bombers given that name
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Government admits disc containing details of suspected foreign criminals was mislaid for a year
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MOSCOW - The recorders extracted from the wreckage of two planes that crashed nearly simultaneously have not revealed reliable information on the disasters' causes, a top Russian official was quoted as saying Thursday.    Vladimir Yakovlev, the Russian president's envoy for the southern region, where one of the planes crashed, also said that the main theory about the catastrophe "all the same remains terrorism," the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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MOSCOW : Investigators said they had found traces of explosive material on one of the two planes that crashed in southern Russia, Russian news agencies reported.
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Prosecutors released two suspects in the contract-style killing of investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, Russian news agencies reported Thursday, and a third is no longer linked to the case.
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Russia outlined on Thursday a series of  steps it had taken to fight kidnapping in Chechnya, a day after  Amnesty International said authorities were letting murder and  kidnap go unpunished in the turbulent republic.
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CIA to declassify secret records detailing illegal surveillance, assassination plots and kidnapping.
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Russian investigators said Friday that they found traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of the two planes that crashed almost simultaneously earlier this week killing 89 people. It was the strongest indication yet that terrorists were behind the twin tragedies.
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The public posting of formerly secret communist-era files on the Internet has sent Poles scrambling to check if anybody they know is among the 240,000 names listed.
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Russian prosecutors look into allegations babies in a Yekaterinburg hospital had their mouths taped shut.
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Nearly two decades after the fall of communism, Europe&#39;s former Moscow-dominated states are using the Internet to make public the files of the security services that helped keep their regimes in power.
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A cache found online of usernames and passwords for more than 100 government e-mail accounts includes takings from Iranian, Russian, Indian, U.K., and Kazakh victims.
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The Russian government's admissions about the crisis that ended with more than 300 children, parents and teachers dead in southern Russia, was made through state television after days of intense criticism from citizens.
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Police and emergency workers recovered bodies and secured the flight recorders yesterday from the wreckage of two Russian airliners that crashed Tuesday night, while authorities said
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MOSCOW - The discovery of traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of two airliners that crashed almost simultaneously this week has confirmed a widely suspected terrorist connection and stoked speculation that the disasters were linked to bloodshed in Chechnya.    A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the crashes, which killed 90 people, were retaliation for Russia's protracted civil war in the troubled republic, which holds an election Sunday to replace its assassinated Kremlin-backed president...
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Russia&#39;s security service announced today that investigators found traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of the two passenger airliners that crashed simultaneously