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Three people have been detained after Russia launched what it described as a “counterterrorism operation” in the southern region of Daghestan, Russian state news agencies reported, quoting the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC).
The European Union’s border-monitoring mission in Armenia (EUMA) has reported no unusual movements of the Armenian military after Azerbaijan earlier on March 31 claimed Armenian troops had massed along the border.
A year after the arrest of Evan Gershkovich in Russia, the Wall Street Journal reporter’s family pledged to continue to fight for release from a Moscow prison where he is being held on espionage charges the White House and his employer say are fabricated.
An ethnic Uzbek living in Russia told Current Time how he and other migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were detained by Moscow police and interrogated following the attack on an entertainment venue near the Russian capital in which over 140 people were killed. He said several Tajiks were beaten and remained in detention following his release.
A 26-year-old Tajik national was detained in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, on a charge of justifying terrorism, the Investigative Committee said on March 28.