Russian authorities have named a man suspected over last month’s suicide bomb attack on Moscow’s airport, and arrested his teenage brother and sister.

ISLAMIC insurgents including a suicide bomber stormed Chechnya’s parliament, leaving six people dead and 17 injured in one of the most brazen attacks on the provincial capital in months, officials said.

A Russian police spokesman has said at least six people were dead after insurgents stormed the parliament and agriculture ministry in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region.

A SUICIDE car bomber hit the central market of a major city in Russia’s North Caucasus yesterday, killing at least 17 and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said.

Russian investigators say two police officers were killed today by a suicide bomber in a restive North Caucasus province near Chechnya.

TWO suicide bombers targeted authorities in southern Russia yesterday, killing 12 people, including nine police officers. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the blasts may have been organised by the same militants who attacked the Moscow subway.

A SUICIDE bomber rammed a truck into a police station in the Russian region of Ingushetia, killing at least 20 police in the worst attack to ravage the poor North Caucasus republic in years.

A suicide bomber attacked a Russian police station today killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100 others.

The Russian-backed Chechen leader accused of being behind the murder of activist Natalya Estemirova today promised to lead an investigation into the killing.

A leading Russian activist who investigated abductions and killings in Chechnya was murdered today hours after being kidnapped.

The president of the troubled Russian North Caucasus region of Ingushetia has been wounded in an assassination attempt, according to Russian news agencies.

Russia ordered an end to its counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya today in a move that could lead to the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops from the southern republic.

A car bomb exploded outside a bank in southern Russia’s violence-plagued Ingushetia region today, injuring at least five people, authorities said.

A Russian news agency reports an explosion at a bank in the Ingushetia region and says there are apparently casualties.

A car bomb exploded near a police vehicle in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus today, killing at least three police officers, witnesses and Russian media reports said.

A drunken driver collided with a motorcade carrying Chechen President Alu Alkhanov as he returned to Chechnya, killing an escorting security officer and critically injuring four others, law enforcement officials said today.

Russia’s defence minister today hailed the killing of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev as a just retribution to “our bin Laden", but said that his death did not mean an end to the fight against rebels.

The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service today said that Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev has been killed, Russian news agencies reported.

Police in Chechnya killed rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev during a special operation today, authorities said.

Relatives of the victims of the Beslan school hostage massacre today accused Russian authorities of covering up the facts as the judge read the verdict against the sole alleged surviving attacker for a third day, describing horrific conditions inside the school.

The Russian judge presiding over the trial of the sole surviving alleged attacker in the Beslan tragedy today read witness testimony on the horrific conditions inside the school.

A powerful car-bomb blast apparently set off by a suicide attacker killed a high-level police official, two of his bodyguards and four civilians in southern Russia’s Ingushetia region today.

The head of the Russian parliamentary commission investigating last year’s Beslan school siege today said the regional police department had ignored instructions to strengthen security around schools and accused law enforcement officials of negligence.

Islamic militants attacked police and government buildings in one of the main cities of Russia’s turbulent Caucasus region today, sparking battles in which dozens of people died, officials said.

Militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in one of the main cities in Russia’s turbulent Caucasus region today, sparking battles involving heavy-arms fire and explosions that forced the evacuation of schools and left bodies in the streets.

Ingushetia’s prime minister has reportedly been injured in an assassination attempt after two powerful explosions hit the city of Nazran in southern Russia.

Militants who carried out last September’s bloody school hostage-taking in Beslan had also planned to detonate powerful car bombs in other cities in southern Russia, a suspect in the raid told a court today.

A truck carrying more than a ton of explosives was found near the Chechen capital, Grozny, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service said today, announcing that a major terrorist attack had been averted in the run-up to next week’s Victory in Europe holiday.

Russian prosecutors say they have arrested four people in connection with the school siege in Beslan last year, which left more than 330 people dead.

Russian authorities have killed five people suspected of aiding September’s school hostage-taking in southern Russia and arrested four other suspects, prosecutors said today.

Hundreds of Russian police and soldiers stormed an apartment building in a southern Russian city today, ending a two-day stand-off with a group of suspected Islamic extremists.

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

Russian authorities have detained two people on suspicion of being linked to terrorists who held more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in September.

RESIDENTS of the grief-stricken Russian school siege town of Beslan marked the end of the 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of the massacre yesterday.

Residents of the grief-stricken Russian school siege town marked the end of the traditional 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of the massacre today.

Residents of the grief-stricken Russian school siege town marked the end of the formal 40 day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of the massacre today.

THE final day of the traditional 40-day mourning period for the victims of the bloody Russian school siege in Beslan is today.

The final day of the traditional 40 day mourning period for the victims of the bloody Russian school siege in Beslan is tomorrow.

Russian security forces and police killed two militants and detained a third after the gunmen holed up in a house on the outskirts of the southern city of Nazran, police said today.

Russian troops clashed with rebels in southern Chechnya, killing five, including a Turkish citizen, a federal spokesman said today.

The Russian parliament’s upper house wants new anti-terror legislation to include stricter penalties for people who aid terrorists and for officials whose negligence results in terrorist attacks, the Interfax news agency reported today.

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.

Chechen rebels have claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian military helicopter.

Security officials have identified six of the militants who seized a school in southern Russia as Chechens, drawing a strong connection to the rebels who have been fighting Russian forces for years.