A well-known journalist at Russia's leading news radio station has been stabbed in the throat by an attacker who burst into her studio - the latest in a string of assaults on journalists or opposition activists in Moscow.

The suicide bomber who killed 35 people at Moscow’s busiest airport was deliberately targeting foreigners, investigators said today.

RUSSIA test fired three long-range missiles yesterday and pronounced its nuclear deterrent strong in a show of force that experts said had not been seen since the days of the Cold War.

Sailors in dress uniforms stood rigid on a ship deck today as wreaths were tossed into the sea to honour 118 of their comrades who perished five years ago when the nuclear submarine Kursk sank.

Russia may use its strategic bombers to unleash preventive strikes against terrorists outside its borders.