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A handout photograph released by the Volgograd regional Interior Ministry department’s press service shows the wreckage of a trolleybus after an attack by a suicide bomber in Volgograd, Russia, on 30 December 2013. (EPA)
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Russian police check a driver’s documents in Sochi on December 30, 2013. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
Russia tightens security in Sochi before Olympics
Moscow, Reuters—Russian forces went on combat alert in Sochi and tightened restrictions on access to the Black Sea resort on Tuesday as part of measures by President Vladimir Putin to ensure security at next month’s Winter Olympics. All vehicles have been banned...Caption:
Russian President Vladimir Putin puts a flower outside a wreckage of a trolleybus in Volgograd, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)
Opinion: Putin vs. the “Black Widows”
As might have been expected, the latest suicide attacks in Volgograd have brought Russia back into the headlines just weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The attacks that claimed at least 60 lives and left many more injured were carried out by...Caption:
A handout photograph released by the Volgograd regional Interior Ministry department’s press service shows the wreckage of a trolleybus after an attack by a suicide bomber in Volgograd, Russia, on 30 December 2013. (EPA)
Successive suicide bombings in Russia kill over 30
Moscow, AP—A blast that tore through an electric bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd during Monday’s morning rush hour, killing 14, was probably carried out by suicide bombers from the same organization behind a railway explosion a day earlier,...Caption:
A handout image made available the Volgograd regional branch of the Ministry of Emergencies shows the site of suicide terrorist explosion in a passenger bus in Volgograd, Russia on October 21, 2013. (EPA/MINISTRY OF EMERGENCIES PRESS SERVICE)