| 02/26/2018 07:00 | Outspoken and Precocious, Florida Students Struggle With Loss When the Cameras Turn Off ( New York Times )
But at night, in the blackness that recalls the dark classroom where she hid as a gunman murdered her classmates, Samara Barrack, 15, cannot stop thinking about that afternoon, when she fled through a blood-covered hallway. Samantha Deitsch, also 15, grieves a friend from journalism class. |
| 02/02/2018 07:20 | Kazakhstan Makes Arrests After Deadly Bus Fire Killed 52 Uzbek Labor Migrants ( The Diplomat )
The fire, on January 18, was not the first such incident along the route from Uzbekistan to Russia, usually from Shymkent on the Uzbek border to Samara. Sixteen people, including an infant, were killed when a bus carrying 55 Uzbek nationals, being driven by two Kazakhs, was hit by a train in Russia in ... |
| 01/30/2018 23:30 | Georgian thief in law Vaso detained with grenade ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
A criminal case is initiated against the kingpin under Illegal Storage of Ammunition (Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). ... On January 25, members of the Organized Crimes Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Samara Region stopped Lada Vesta car without ... |
| 01/29/2018 12:15 | Kolesnikov Suicide Symbolic for Russia ( Silk Road Reporters )
Russian youth activist Vlad Kolesnikov took his own life on Christmas Day in Russia's Samara region. Amidst widespread mourning, some in the country are wondering if his death was in fact a murder, and many warn that similar incidents could follow. Vlad_Kolesnikov_3536592b. A few months earlier, ... |
| 01/27/2018 05:45 | Failed subterfuge. Ex-security chief of Boris Berezovsky arrested ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
... Russian Federation (ICR), a request to check potential ties between high-ranked enforcement functionaries of the Samara Region and Zakonovskie organized criminal group. Coincidentally or not, but a week later, the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation has arrested four persons ... |
| 01/26/2018 19:25 | Aktobe bus fire: Drivers detained ( vestnik kavkaza )
... it was established that all three drivers of the bus were implicated in the crime. Recall that the bus, which was going from Uzbekistan to Russia on the Samara-Shymkent road, caught fire on January 18. The fire killed 52 people. All of them are citizens of Uzbekistan. According to the investigators, it was ... |
| 01/26/2018 05:45 | Drivers Of Bus In Which 52 Uzbeks Died In Fire Detained ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
The accident occurred in the Yrghyz district of Kazakhstan's northwestern Aqtobe region as the bus was traveling from Kazakhstan's southern city of Shymkent to the Russian city of Samara. Both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have set up state commissions to investigate the fire. Many people from ... |
| 01/20/2018 03:30 | Election season in Russia: violent acts and criminal cases against rights defenders, political activists ( Open Democracy )
This article is part of our partnership with OVD-Info, an NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Russia's presidential elections are drawing close and the machinery of repression, which is working overtime, has apparently no intention to stop. We continue to cover these events. |
| 01/20/2018 03:30 | Navalny's Offices Raided Across Russia Ahead of Anti-Election Rally ( The Moscow Times )
A dozen campaign offices belonging to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's have been vandalized or searched by police ahead of a nationwide ... Later on Thursday, a twelfth office was attacked in Samara by âcopsâ who forced their way in and damaged property, local campaign coordinator ... |
| 01/19/2018 09:40 | Over 50 Killed in Passenger Bus Fire in Kazakhstan - Reports (VIDEO, PHOTO) ( Sputnik International )
"A passenger bus Ikarus was caught on fire at 4:30 a.m. GMT on the road, connecting Russia's city of Samara and Kazakh city of Shymkent," Imankulov said. READ MORE: School Bus Crashes Into Wall in Germany's Eberbach Leaving 48 Injured â Police. There were 55 passengers and two drivers in ... |
| 01/19/2018 09:40 | 52 killed in Kazakhstan bus accident ( Pulse Nigeria )
The bus was reportedly carrying Uzbek citizens to or from Russia along the Samara-Shymkent route, said local media. The report said the route, which is about 2,200km (1,300 miles) long, is frequently used by Uzbek migrant labourers travelling to construction sites in Russia. The emergency services ... |
| 01/19/2018 09:40 | Some Samara region siloviki may follow Berezovsky's guard to jail ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
According to the SBU, she arrived in Ukraine to recruit former members of Kiev's anti-terrorist operation in the Donbass, who were later to come to Russia and stage a sabotage to accuse the Ukrainian siloviki of it. Lugovoi became widely known in 2001 in connection with the Aeroflot case. As Izvestia ... |
| 01/18/2018 01:15 | Berezovsky's Security Chief Arrested for Illegal Arms Possession ( The Moscow Times )
Sergei Sokolov was arrested on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an alleged cover-up of organized crime by senior law enforcement officials in the Russian city of Samara, the RBC business portal reported. âThe detained are being inspected for their role in the organized criminal group,â the ... |
| 01/11/2018 07:00 | Founder of anticorruption organization convicted for bribing chief of police department ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
... has convicted founder of the Samara region of Anticorruption Committee Anzor Apshev over Bribe on an especially large scale (part 4 of Art. 291 of the Russian Criminal Code) to chief of regional MIA office. This is reported by the press service of the ICR Investigations Directorate in the Samara region. |
| 01/10/2018 22:25 | Men trying to slay Guli disimprisoned ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
Moreover, Russia is investigating the case against Guli targeting abduction and extortion. The Presnensky court of Moscow arrested the crime boss in absentia, the same sanction followed from the Samara district court. Sources of media outlet Volga News informed that this was necessary in order for ... |
| 01/10/2018 04:05 | Russia to seek extradition of thief in law Guli ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
The Samara Regional Court upheld the decision of the Samara District Court to satisfy the request of the regional Investigation Committee to arrest thief in law Nadir Salifov, known in the criminal world as Guli. The VolgaNews.ru edition reports this. The court considered an appeal against the decision of ... |
| 01/01/2018 21:15 | About 50 false mining calls made on New Year's Eve ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
... Abakan, Kemerovo, Ulan-Ude, Izhevsk, Samara, Saratov, Kirov, Penza, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanovsk, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Makhachkala, ... In total, since September 11, when a wave of false mining began in Russia, nearly four thousand objects were attacked by telephone terrorists, more ... |
| 12/30/2017 05:20 | Russia blocks Brazzers to 'protect human psyche' â what could they mean? (POLL) ( Observer )
Russia blocks Brazzers to 'protect human psyche' but court orders unlock of YouPorn (POLL) The porn site 'Brazzers' is now blocked in Russia over ... What was the Bolsheglushitsky District Court in Russia's Samara region, from which the October 2016 ruling was issued, thinking when blocking the ... |
| 12/27/2017 20:05 | Gays Hide, Flee Ex-Soviet Republics As LGBT Crackdowns Turn Brutal ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
In October, in the Samara region on Russia's Volga River, 27-year-old LGBT rights activist Yevdokia Romanova was convicted and fined under what critics have dubbed the "gay propagandaâ law -- despite a June ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that the legislation violates the ... |
| 12/20/2017 07:25 | RUSSIA: Property sell-offs, alternative service denials follow Jehovah's Witness ban ( Forum 18 )
Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia continue to feel the impact of their liquidation and the nationwide ban on their exercise of freedom of religion or belief. ..... Such incidents have occurred in Dmitrov (Moscow Region), Severnaya Ferma (Vologda Region), Chapayevsk (Samara Region), and Diveyevo ... |
