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Drone warfare once again forced Moscow into lockdown on Wednesday as three of the capital’s four airports abruptly suspended operations. Panic rippled through Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Sheremetyevo as incoming flights were turned away and departures stalled. Sirens blared as air defences scrambled to intercept the latest wave of Ukrainian drones breaching Russian skies. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin confirmed multiple drones were shot down on approach, with emergency crews deployed to the crash sites. Ukraine launched a large-scale drone offensive overnight, targeting multiple regions in Russia. One since-deleted clip from Oryol shared by a Kremlin-aligned Telegram channel appeared to show a flaming...

Russia's air defence units destroyed at least seven Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow, while 59 of the air weapons were downed over the Bryansk region near the border with Ukraine, local officials said on Tuesday. "According to preliminary information, there is no damage or injuries at the site of the fall of the debris," Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app. The drones were destroyed in the Lyubertsy and Ramenskoye districts of the Moscow region, as well as in the Podolsk city district, Sobyanin said. Podolsk is some 38 km (24 miles) south of the...

The State Department announced Wednesday that it has added two people to the federal list of designated terrorists, one of whom was once detained at Guantanamo Bay military prison. Ayrat Nasimovich Vakhitov, one of the newly added jihadists, was a former detainee at Guantanamo for less than two years from June 2002 until February 2004 before being turned over to Russian officials in his home country. Turkish authorities recently arrested Vahkitov in connection with the June 29 suicide bombings at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport that killed 42 people. While no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, U.S. and Turkish authorities...

An image from an observation camera inside the international arrivals hall at "Domodedovo" shows the aftermath of the blast (image copyright lenta.ru) The brothers Islam and Iles Yandiev, suspected as accessories to the terrorist attack in the Moscow airport "Domodedovo," were transported to Moscow, according to a RIA Novosti report of April 2nd. According to a member of the law enforcement agencies of the North Kavkaz federal region, Yandievs were transported to the capital under guard in a transport airplane. The Yandievs were transferred from the North Osetian trial detention facility to the Moscow jail "Lefortovo." The suspects were detained...

The word ‘terror’ in Latin means ‘fear’ and ‘horror’. The word ‘terrorism’ is derived from it, and must be understood as a means of inducing fear. Mass murder does not always strike fear into everyone. The elimination of six million Jews did not. Neither did the destruction of two million Africans in Darfur, nor the deportation of hundreds of thousands from the Caucasus. These acts struck fear into no one other than the doomed. All that reigned was indifference. Terrorism, however, scares everyone, and while I of course condemn terrorism, I believe it is time to figure out why fear...

24-year-old Zeynap Suyunova, arrested in Volgograd and suspected of involvement in an explosion at a Moscow shooting club on December 31st, confessed to security services that her accomplices were planning two terrorist attacks in the capital - one of them at the airport, reports Life News. There is no official confirmation of this information. A day earlier the National Antiterrorism Committee would only state that interrogation of suspects in the shooting club blast had prevented of two terrorist attacks in Dagestan. According to the official version, the planned New Year’s Eve bombing in the capital and the attack on Domodedovo...

In spite of regularly occurring acts of terrorism around the world, a normal person cannot get used to these cruel acts of violence against entirely innocent persons, people whose only ‘guilt’ is that they are have a different nationality, religion, or political view. Each terrorist attack that results in human casualties is therefore perceived by the vast majority of people around the world as a personal tragedy, regardless of the country where the crime takes place, especially since the victims of such attacks are increasingly citizens of different countries. The bombing at Domodedovo airport on January 24th, and the resulting...

AFP - As Russia's ruling tandem lashed out at militants and poor security for the Moscow airport blast, enraged bloggers countered Tuesday that the authorities only had themselves to blame. With nationally-watched television channels under tight state control and only a handful of newspapers daring to criticise the Kremlin, the Internet has become one of the few outlets for public dissent in Russia. Some bloggers even alleged the authorities staged the Domodedovo airport blast that killed 35 to bolster their support early in a crucial year ahead of 2012 presidential elections. "Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! Of course we will elect you...

Putting the phrase ‘airport bombing’ into my search engine yielded some unexpected results. I read it and could not believe my eyes. Could this really be? Hundreds of thousands of citizens in various cities across the country are participating in protests against the terrorists who organized the bombing of the airport. In the capital at least a million inhabitants are demonstrating under the banner: “For peace, for life, for freedom - against terrorism!” The demonstration is supported by more than 500 political parties and public organizations, and was started by the nation’s leading labor unions. Taking part in it are...

A spokeswoman for Moscow's busiest airport says 35 people have been killed by an explosion in its international arrivals hall. Domodedovo Airport spokeswoman Yelena Galanova made the statement Monday on Russia's NTV television. Other officials put the death toll at 31 and said about 130 people were injured in the explosion Monday afternoon. President Dmitry Medvedev said it looked like a terror attack and the state RIA Novosti news agency said the blast may have been set off by a suicide bomber.

At least 31 people have been killed and 130 wounded by a bomb blast at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. Domodedovo is the city's largest and busiest air facility. Unnamed sources say that a Chechen Islamic terrorist group, the Caucasus Emirate, is believed to be behind the attack. The same group employed women as female suicide bombers in the bombing of the Moscow Metro subway last March. 40 people were killed in that attack...

Today was made known the name of the individual whose carelessness, in the opinion of Russian general prosecutor Yuriy Ustinov, destroyed the passengers and crews of the Tu-134 and Tu-154 aircraft. Recall that, according to the findings of a goverment commission, Nagaeva and Dzhebirkhanova together with another two Chechnyans arrived at the capital airport on flight #884 from Makhachkala. The suicide bombers had never flown before, so they were sent by air to Moscow in order that they may acquaint themselves with registration, security, and rules of behavior in airports. Immediately after landing, police officers stopped them, took away their...