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...wave of terrorist bombings in the Russian northern Caucasus late last month killed 23 people, including a 15-year-old girl, and wounded 144. In Rostov-on-Don, 1,100 km south of Moscow, the trial of Russian Colonel Yuri Budanov on charges of murdering an 18-year-old Chechen girl resumes next week. Both events highlight the madness of Russia's tragic Chechen quagmire...
...himself formally charged on Friday, the U.S. warned Russia that the move could hamper American investment in Russia?s struggling economy. The 29-year-old engineer was accused of spying on sensitive military installations while helping lay the groundwork for a new cellular phone system in the city of Rostov, using a Global Positioning Satellite...
Andre Chikatilo, the sadistic, Ukraine-born serial killer, who raped, murdered and ate more than 50 people in the former Soviet Union between 1978 and 1990, was executed with a bullet to the back of the head in Rostov...
R.I.P. for the Rostov Ripper...
After a dramatic five-day pursuit, Russian security forces captured four masked gunmen who kidnapped 11 students, a teacher and a bus driver from their school at Rostov-on-Don. The kidnappers, who collected from the Russian government a ransom of $10 million in U.S. currency, forced two military pilots to fly them in a helicopter to the Caucasus Mountains. Using a massive, special forces-style operation to track the kidnappers, authorities captured all four of them and recovered most of the ransom...