Russian Militants Said to Be Addicts
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Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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Those arrested included a Chechen crime boss and career officers from Russiaâs police and intelligence services.
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MOSCOW Sept. 19, 2004 - He is Russia&#39;s homegrown version of Osama bin Laden, but with a trademark all his own: dramatic mass hostage-takings that have often turned to bloodbaths.
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The results of a forensic analysis showed that 31 Islamist militants who seized a school in Beslan last month and killed at least 330 people were drug addicts, a law enforcement official told Russian news agencies.
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The horrific school hostage seizure has caused a rift among Chechen rebels, Russian officials claimed Saturday and, in an apparent attempt to exploit division, said insurgents can get the $10 million reward offered for information about
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President Vladimir Putin accused the West of indulging terrorists on Friday, just hours after a Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks in Russia and threatened more.
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The terrorists who took hostages at a Beslan secondary school on September 1, were addicted to narcotics, according to a statement by Russia&#39;s Deputy Prosecutor General, Nikolay Shepel.
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A group of Islamic militants has claimed responsibility for Tuesdayâs air crashes in Russia. The statement, published on a website known for militant Muslim comment, linked the action to Russia&#39;s fight against separatists in Chechnya.
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(InfoWorld) - A Russian computer security expert predicts that terrorists could seek to target the country's critical infrastructure through electronic warfare, a strategy that could raise the stakes in how Russia handles computer crime. While terrorists aren't believed to currently have the know-how to disrupt critical infrastructure, it would be "very dangerous" if they start learning, said Valery Vasenin, head of the Computer Security Department at the Institute for Information Security Problems (IISP) at Moscow State University. "I think the phenomenon of terrorism will go in this direction," Vasenin said in an interview at his office. "This is probably the most important problem for the coming years." Russia's energy grid is a possible target, which could cause widespread blackouts. The air transportation or fuel distribution systems are other possible targets, Vasenin said. Russia has experienced chilling episodes of terrorism. In September 2004, 331 people, more than half of whom were children, were killed when Chechen separatists stormed a school in Beslan. In October 2002, Chechen rebels took 850 people hostage in a Moscow theater; 117 died after Russian forces used a poisonous gas before entering the premises. No major cyberterrorism incident in Russia has been recorded. However, the country's infrastructure is becoming more networked and less isolated than before, which could make it more vulnerable to cyberattacks, Vasenin said. "Russia, at the moment, is average in terms of computer security, like the rest of the world," Vasenin said. In the 1990s, the Internet in Russia was still viewed as something of a domain for academics, Vasenin said. But the rapid change of technology and emergence of threats has led to greater attention to security issues, he said. Moscow State University's IISP was established in 2004 to study network security, the psychology of human behavior and the Internet, along with computer forensics and judicial issues. Russia lacks laws that clearly define computer crime, he said, making it difficult for Internal Affairs Ministry agents to investigate and bring cases. IISP is studying other countries' computer crime laws and formulating recommendations. "They [the Internal Affairs Ministry] are somewhat unarmed," Vasenin said. "We understand we [Russia] have these problems related to legislation, just as there are worldwide problems." Through June, Russia recorded 8,400 computer-related crimes, according to figures released by the Internal Affairs Ministry in October. Forty-three percent of the cases were related to online auction fraud, with the remainder comprising information theft, unauthorized access, child pornography violations and others, the ministry said. Boris Miroshnikov, who heads the cybercrime department in Russia's Internal Affairs Ministry, has called for more trained experts to handle criminal cases that often cross international borders. Miroshnikov's comments at a cybersecurity conference were published earlier this year by Moscow State University. "Do we have today a school of experts in the field of cybercrimes?" Miroshnikov told conference participants. "Unfortunately, I do not think so." (Pavel Kupriyanov of Computerworld Russia contributed to this report.) Â
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President Vladimir Putin accused the  West of indulging terrorists on Friday, just hours after a  Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly  attacks in Russia and threatened more.
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MOSCOW Sept. 8, 2004 - The militants who raided a school in southern Russia last week were led by a man dubbed the Colonel, who enforced obedience by killing three fellow attackers two by detonating the explosives they had strapped to their bodies.
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Dubai - An Islamist group has claimed that it hijacked two Russian planes that crashed this week, killing at least 89 people, and threatened more attacks, according to an Internet statement posted on Friday.
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WHO: Thousands of Russian retirees and military veterans.
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Hundreds of thousands of conscripts in the Russian armed services are abused each year under a cruel system of hazing that military leaders have been unwilling to stop, a rights
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A suspected Russian mobster is believed by U.S. law enforcement to be behind a series of phishing scams.
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Formed a year ago to bring the full force of the country's law enforcement to bear against a growing drug crisis, Russia's powerful new drug-fighting agency has an army of 40,000 at its disposal, four times larger than the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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The three Russian citizens, accused of extorting $4 million, focused on U.K. Internet gambling sites.