Topic: RIA Novosti - CSMonitor.com

Terrorism & Security Attacks in Russia's Dagestan grab international attention after Boston

Dagestan and the rest of the Caucasus republics of Russia have been the site of a long-running Islamic insurgency against Moscow and its local allies. A bombing and separate shooting killed six today.

Russian psychiatric hospital fire kills 38; only 3 survivors (+video)

Boston Marathon bombing has Russia concerned about its own event security

'Killer dolphins' escape? Not so fast.

New type of bacteria discovered in lake beneath Antarctic ice

Dozens killed in Damascus car bombing

Meteorite - not the end of the world - strikes Russia's Siberia (+video)

Parting blows: Clinton blasts Russia for inaction in Syria

Kremlin: Adoption ban needed to create 'Russia Without Orphans' (+video)

Is Russia backing off its anti-US adoption ban?

Terrorism & Security UN envoy: Without deal in Syria, think Somalia not Yugoslavia

Terrorism & Security Russia insists it stands by Syria's Assad, despite earlier comments (+video)

Russian 'rendition': Kremlin grabs opposition figure from Ukraine streets

Terrorism & Security Turkey at odds with Moscow after grounding Russia-Syria flight

Amid opposition boycott, Belarus leader praises 'boring and calm' election

Russia: Try again on Syria talks, Assad might be willing to go

Pussy Riot: the anonymous band behind the high-profile conviction (+video)

Was Putin in charge during Georgia war? Medvedev begs to differ.

Prosecutors ask for 3 years in Russian punk band Pussy Riot hooliganism case

Madonna, in Moscow, wades into Pussy Riot trial controversy

Attacks target voices of moderate Islam in central Russia

Adoption: Russian official focuses on ranch for troubled adoptees

Terrorism & Security Russia drafts new UN resolution on Syria, meets Syria opposition

Russia's outreach to Syria's opposition hints at policy pivot

Terrorism & Security Russian effort to send helicopters to Syria hits snag