Russian artist Alyona Kazinskaya likes to fill her social media feed with cheerful messages and vivid floral paintings. For 30 minutes last Friday night, it turned into a timeline of terror. Kazinskaya and a friend had bought last-minute tickets to see Soviet-era rock group “Picnic” perform in front of 6,200 people at a concert hall […]
Russian officials are saying it’s “extremely hard to believe” that the Islamic State would have had the capacity to launch an attack on a Moscow concert hall last Friday that killed at least 143 people. Source: Russia says it is hard to believe Islamic State could have launched Moscow attack
A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a man to six years in jail for online messages denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as Moscow clamps down on public criticism of the conflict. Nikolai Farafonov, 35, was found guilty of “public incitement to commit terrorist acts” by a military court in Russia’s northern Komi region, local media […]