Terror Incidents in Russia Since 1995
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A list of major terrorist incidents blamed mostly on Chechen militants since 1995:
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A color-coded alert system, tighter controls on foreigners and restoring the death penalty are among the proposals to strengthen Russian security after a series of terror attacks, culminating in a deadly siege of a school, dubbed "Russia's Sept. 11."
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The third year of the US' global "war on terror" saw a number of high-profile terrorist acts in a wide range of countries.
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(Source: VeriSign)  The Russian cyber crime underground developed early in the Internet age. Today, these criminals pose a threat for malicious activity around the world. Download the free report, "Global Threat Research Report: Russia," to get an in-depth look at this growing problem, and learn how VeriSign iDefense Security Intelligence Services can help.
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Politics: 20 September 2004, Monday. Fears of terror attacks against Bulgaria and its citizens have considerably increased, a survey of polling agency Alpha Research shows.
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MOSCOW : Russia said terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash as an Islamic group proclaiming support for rebels in Chechnya claimed responsibility for the downing of that and another plane.
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MOSCOW - Responding to a spate of deadly terror attacks, President Vladimir Putin announced a series of anti-terror initiatives Monday that would strengthen the Kremlin's grip on every layer of Russian political life.    Putin told Cabinet members and security officials convened in special session that the future of Russia was at stake, and called for the creation of a central, powerful anti-terror agency...
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MOSCOW - The fight against terror was supposed to unite Russia and the West, pounding the last nail into the coffin of the Cold War. But three years after the Sept...
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The people of Russia have experienced the extremes to which terrorists are prepared to go to achieve their ends. Terrorists killed more than three-hundred people, mostly children, at a school they seized in Beslan.
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A list of major terror attacks linked to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.
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Russian President Vladi mir Putin visits a victim of the besieged school at a hospital in Beslan, September 4, 2004. Putin ordered a crackdown in seething southern Russia after a school siege killed at least
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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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Russia announced the creation of a new leadership structure for security services in the north Caucasus to combat terror in the region in the wake of the Beslan school hostage crisis, as tensions continued with United States over its stance towards Chechen rebels.
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Two Russian passenger planes that crashed almost simultaneously last week killing 90 people were blown up in a &quot;terrorist attack&quot; but not by hijackers, investigators said Monday.
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Sept. 6 issue - Russian officials confirmed what the rest of the world suspected: that terrorism was a likely cause of two nearly simultaneous crashes of airliners that took off from the same Moscow airport one night last week.
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MOSCOW -- The downing of one of two Russian passenger jets that crashed nearly simultaneously earlier this week was an act of terrorism, investigators said yesterday after finding traces of explosives amid the wreckage of one of the airliners.
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Last week's attack on a Russian school has driven new wedges between Russia and the West in the fight against terrorism, as Moscow continues to accuse the United States and European countries of coddling Chechen separatists.