Some Chechen News Today

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.

The U.S. Embassy in Serbia said it didn’t invite Aleksandar Vulin, the sanctioned director of the Balkan country's Security Intelligence Agency (BIA), to an event commemorating the anniversary of a World War II allied rescue mission.

Belarus spent more than $14 million to renovate a building in Minsk to turn it into another residence for longtime authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka, according to an investigative report

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree nationalizing printing presses that the previous foreign owner had transferred to a Nobel Prize- winning opposition editor.

The Russian state-financed Aleksandr Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund, which was sanctioned by the West for its ties to the Kremlin, will hold a conference in Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

A Russian court has for the first time sentenced a woman to prison for failing to report for active duty following the Kremlin’s call-up of reserves last year.

The feared troops have been used as a PR tool in Vladimir Putins war, and photos of them in the city suggest the dictator believes he is on the verge of taking it.