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RFE/RL has reached out to relatives in Tajikistan and trawled the social media accounts of some of the eight men who have now been charged over the Moscow shootings, in which at least 139 people were killed at the Crocus City Hall concert venue.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 25 said the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow was committed by radical Islamists.
Fresh Russian drone strikes continued to target Ukraine's energy and civilian infrastructure, causing blackouts in several regions and in the capital, Kyiv.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman refused to answer a question regarding indications that the four suspects in the deadly terrorist attack on a concert hall outside of Moscow may have been abused during and after their detention.
Four suspects charged with acts of terrorism in connection with the attack on a concert hall outside Moscow that left 137 people dead have been sent to pretrial detention for two months pending trial, a Moscow court ruled late on March 24.
Rescuers pulled more bodies from the rubble of a Moscow-region concert hall as the toll from a deadly attack on the venue reached 133 and security officials said four suspected gunmen had been detained in connection with Russia’s worst terrorist violence in nearly two decades.
Officials in two Russian regions bordering Ukraine say Ukrainian drones have killed two people and hit an oil refinery, setting it on fire.
Russian officials report that at least 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when gunmen fired at crowds at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow late on March 22. Social media videos captured scenes of panic as people fled from the gunshots and smoke rose from the concert hall.
Russian authorities said at least 62 people were killed and more than 100 injured after gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, on March 22 in an attack reportedly claimed by the Islamic State militant group.
Police in Russia's southwestern Rostov region detained vlogger Nelli Khomyachkova over a video she posted online in which she called Russian soldiers involved in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine "cannon fodder."
The Vyorstka Telegram channel cited four sources close to the presidential office and Defense Ministry as saying that Moscow plans to soon announce a new wave of military mobilization that would seek to enlist up to 300,000 people to bolster its troops involved in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The OVD-Info rights group said on March 21 that a court in Moscow had sentenced poet Aleksandr Byvshev to seven years in prison on a charge of calling for terrorism and distributing false news about Russia's military.
Residents of the Graivoronsky urban district of Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine have been advised by authorities to temporarily leave the area, which has been frequently targeted by drones and missile attacks from Ukrainian and Ukraine-aligned forces.
A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for the self-exiled founder of the Gulagu.net group, which monitors inmates' rights. The warrant was issued on March 21 after the Federal Security Service launched a probe against Vladimir Osechkin on a charge of justifying terrorism.
Observers continue to document irregularities in Russia's presidential election as the Central Election Commission (TsIK) announced Vladimir Putin had officially won a landslide victory in a vote that the international community has called a "sham" and not "free and fair."
A Russian court rejected a lawsuit filed by the mother of late Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny against guards of a prison where he died last month, his associate Ivan Zhdanov said on March 21.
Russia refused to extend the visa for Spanish journalist Xavier Colas and ordered him to leave the country within 24 hours, the reporter's employer, the El Mundo newspaper, said on March 21.
The websites of Russian independent news outlet SOTA and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Memorial Center for Protection of Human Rights have been blocked by media-monitoring agency Roskomnadzor.
A massive wave of Russian missiles targeting Kyiv was largely repelled by the air-defense systems of the Ukrainian capital early on March 21, but several people were wounded by the falling debris while extensive damage was reported in parts of the capital.
Russian troops on March 19 shelled border territories and settlements in the northeastern Sumy region, targeting more than a half dozen communities in at least 30 incidents on a single day.
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