Gaidar says foes of Kremlin may have wanted him dead
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Former Russian premier Yegor Gaidar said  on Thursday enemies of the Kremlin probably tried to kill him  during a trip to Dublin last month in an attack he likened to  something from a "political thriller."
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At least 22 Chechen rebels were killed by Russian troops in the separatist republic, including a man officials say was linked to the assassination of Chechnya âs pro-Moscow president Akhmad Kadyrov.
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A rebel whose capture in Venezuela has touched off a diplomatic crisis with Colombia believed that he was going to be killed by his captors, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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A former KGB spy accused Vladimir Putin of his murder on Friday in a statement read out after his death, which British health officials said had been caused by a rare radioactive substance found in his body.
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A journalist who plunged to his death from his apartment building window faced threats while reporting on a highly sensitive story that Russia planned to sell sophisticated missiles to Syria and Iran, his newspaper reported Tuesday.
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VLADIMIR Putin, the Russian president, was accused yesterday of exploiting the fight against terrorism to strengthen his already iron grip on power.
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MOSCOW -- A journalist who plunged to his death from his apartment building window faced threats while reporting on a highly sensitive story that Russia planned to sell sophisticated missiles to Syria and Iran, his newspaper reported yesterday.
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Russian investigators were under  pressure on Wednesday to establish quickly who was behind a  suicide bomb attack on a busy Moscow street that killed 10  people and injured 51.
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Andrei Lugovoi, suspected of killing ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, says Britain's secret service tried to recruit him.
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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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Kremlin accused of invoking threat of forced military service to intimidate anti-Putin activists.
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THE Kremlin was yesterday accused of poisoning Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraineâs opposition leader, in order to keep the country within Russiaâs sphere of influence.
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A former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic who is fighting for his life in a London hospital may have been given another poison in addition to thallium, perhaps a radioactive substance, a doctor said Tuesday.
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Andrei Lugovoi says the British intelligence service is behind the murder of Kremlin opponent Alexander Litvinenko.
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The mysterious poisoning of an ex-KGB spy has heightened debate over the nation's direction.
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Yegor Gaidar, a former Russian prime  minister, told the Financial Times he suffered a sudden,  serious illness last week on a visit to Ireland.
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An former KGB agent poisoned in London described in interviews before his death how he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published on Saturday.