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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the "last chance saloon" over the Ukraine crisis, but appears to be doing little to get out of it.

THE president of Chechnya justified the right of male relatives to carry out “honour killings” after seven young women were found shot dead.

Chechnya is holding the latest in a series of elections today as part of a continuing effort to bring stability and peace.

Russian police investigating the the Beslan school siege believe that one of the attack organisers may have been a former policeman who disappeared six years ago.