Two members of the punk group Pussy Riot ran out of a police station in their trademark balaclavas after being released following several hours of questioning in Sochi, the host city of the Winter Olympics.

An airport security camera video has captured a doomed Russian airliner plunging to the ground in a near-vertical crash, killing all 50 on board.

Russian investigators are combing through the charred fragments of a Boeing 737 jetliner as they try to determine what caused it to crash, killing all 50 people on board.

The body of a Russian politician has been found cemented in a barrel, and a former government official has been accused of ordering the killing over an $80 million (€59 million) debt, officials say.

A top Muslim cleric has been shot dead and another injured by a car bomb in Russia’s Tatarstan province, officials said.

Russian officials say the suspected gunman in the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been arrested.