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Four men have been arrested for dancing the lezginka in Gelendzhik, a resort town where President Vladimir Putin is said to have a palace.

The Russian Investigative Committee has identified a Kyrgyz native as the suspect in the bombing of the St. Petersburg metro yesterday in which 14 were killed and 51 injured.

In year-end clashes between police and militants in the North Caucasus, 6 people killed and 4 wounded. A man with an explosive was stopped at Sheremeytovo Airport.

Reports of precise numbers and accounts of tracking Islamist fighters as they leave Russia and return open up the question of how much the FSB controls these fighters, not only to gather intelligence but to perform missions.

The Russian state TV show Vesti Nedeli, a weekly program hosted by Dmitry Kiselyov has aired footage of Russian spetsnaz engaged in combat on the ground in Syria.

But protesting FSA fighters have pushed US special forces troops out of al-Rai

Meanwhile regime-allied forces have retaken a strategically important artillery base in Aleppo, threatening a renewed siege.

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The terrorist group produced photos purportedly taken from the dead soldiers’ phones.

Rescue workers say a Russian airstrike hit a hospital and surrounding neighborhoods in Idlib, Syria, killing at least 23 civilians.