Russia Threatens to Strike Terror Bases
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MOSCOW - A top Russian general on Wednesday warned the military will strike "terrorist bases in any region of the world," while authorities offered a $10 million reward for information leading to two Chechen rebel leaders blamed for last week's deadly raid on a school.    In a nationally televised meeting, Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov also briefed President Vladimir Putin on the investigation into the taking of more than 1,200 hostages in a school last week in the southern Russian town of Beslan...
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President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown in southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 250, and warned Chechen sympathisers on Saturday they would be seen as "accomplices of terrorism."
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Russia warned on Wednesday that it was ready to carry out pre-emptive strikes on &quot;terror bases&quot; anywhere in the world as it stepped up security after the country&#39;s worst hostage crisis.
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MOSCOW - Russia has the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes on militant bases abroad, Russia&#39;s defense minister said Sunday, citing the school hostage crisis.
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TBILISI -- The commander of Russian military forces in Georgia said yesterday his troops had been put on high alert and ordered to use lethal force to defend their bases, amid mounting tensions over the arrest of four Russian military officers accused of spying. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, denounced the Georgian authorities' arrests as ``state terrorism" and blamed unidentified ...
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The chief of Russia's space forces on Thursday said Moscow would have to retaliate if others deploy weapons in space &#151; a stern warning to the United States.
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THE Russian school siege reached a catastrophic climax yesterday as terrorists carried out their threat to blow up the building, killing at least 200 people, many of them children, and injuring more than 700.
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A London-based Chechen rebel representative said Wednesday that Russia&#39;s threats to attack terrorists around the world amount to a warning to European countries that Russian forces
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Russia warns Europe and US against recognising independent state
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia was preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Friday emphasized Russiaâs right to conduct preventive strikes against terrorists anywhere across the globe, suggesting it has become common
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MOSCOW  - Russia has the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes on militant bases abroad, Russia's defence minister said Sunday, citing the recent school hostage crisis. He said Moscow and the United States see eye-to-eye on fighting terrorism.
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Russia's top general threatened on Wednesday to strike terrorists "in any region of the world," and the Kremlin offered a &#36;10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya's top rebel leaders.
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin said Friday the Kremlin is preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, even as a Chechen rebel leader purportedly claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed hundreds of people and threatened further violence.
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Russia issued a veiled threat on Wednesday to deploy rockets in its Kaliningrad region bordering the European Union if the United States built a missile defence shield in central Europe.
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MOSCOW -- In a statement reflecting the growing distrust between Moscow and the West, a top Russian general warned yesterday that Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host US missile defense bases.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin linked the downing last week of two passenger airliners to Al-Qaeda and said this proved the presence of organized international terrorism on Russian soil.