A top official from Russia's armed forces was killed during Azerbaijan's shelling of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh just two months after he was appointed to be the second in command of a Russian peacekeeping force in the region.
Russian emergency officials said on September 21 that seven people, including two rescue workers, were killed after an explosion caused by a gas leak ripped through a nine-story apartment block in the city of Balashikha near Moscow a day earlier.
Three teenage sons of Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov have often been in the spotlight, and some of their siblings have also been showered with accolades. What’s behind the prominence of the trio?