Faced with an uphill legal battle to win damages for victims of last autumn’s terrorist raid on a Moscow theatre, their lawyer has offered a cut price out-of-court deal

A Moscow court today rejected six of the 24 lawsuits filed against the city government for moral and material damages suffered in the terrorist seizure of a Moscow theatre.

A MOSCOW local court has begun hearing an unprecedented compensation claim filed over the October theatre siege by immediately placing tight restrictions to limit the scope of the case.