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A Chechen woman who was on the Federal Wanted List on a suspicion of committing a terror act at the Armavir-2 railway station in the Krasnodar Territory in April 1997... As a result of the terror act at the station in 1997, two people had been killed and seven wounded.

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents, and Svetlana's research, the only terrorist attack in 1997 was on June 28th, when a bomb exploded on the "Avrora" (Moscow to Saint Petersburg), killing 3 and injuring 7.
[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C0CE6DC1031F93BA15755C0A961958260].

I wonder if the date (and place) of the crime the woman is being charged with were reported mistakenly. Rather unlikely - Krasnodar is hard to mix up with Moscow.

My theory: back then Russia was playing down the scope of its terror problem, only reporting the acts too blatant to cover up.

Perhaps it was related to this:

Terrorist acts damage Russia's tourist business
Front page / Russia / Economics
09.09.2004

The situation will stabilize only in several years

Recent terrorist attacks have caused considerable damage to the tourist business in Russia. About 20,000 foreigners refused to go to Russia, Echo of Moscow radio station said.

Tourists started declining their intentions to visit Russia after two airliners flying to Sochi and Volgograd crashed. Europeans made the majority of the tourists, who refused to travel to Russia.

The explosion near the Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow and the hostage crisis in North Ossetia, southern Russia, followed the air crashes. Denmark included Russia on the list of the countries, which were not recommended to visiting. The majority of tourist groups from Denmark, Korea and Taiwan cancelled their plans.

As a result, Russian tourist agencies have suffered about 400 million dollars of losses. Specialists believe the tourist crisis may last long, and the situation will stabilize only in several years.

More than likely you are correct.

A couple months ago, as I recall it, the Moscow airport was closed, there was a crashed plane burning on it.

I heard it, or ran across it and found it listed in several places, all over the world, but then Russia said "Not true"...

Strange, that so many had it as breaking news.

From all the people who get arrested, with little cause in Russia, we may never know the rest of the story, but I would like to.

I haven't checked the Chechen group as yet, if I didn't put your name on the post that I just posted a minute ago, take a look, it is another, that kinda goes togather.

Thanks for this one, interesting outcome.

Here it is, I think:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US&q=+railway+station+in+the+Krasnodar+Territory+in+April+1997&btnG=Search

Am I right in thinking that the Ingushetia is in the same fix as Chechnya? Dumb me, I thought that Ingushetia was a town in Chechnya, but found out last night that it is a different country.

Another of the same thought pattern as the muslims, "we controlled it once and it will always be ours"..................