Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has instructed Russia’s security and intelligence services to help Tajikistan to track down and detain escaped prisoners. This was revealed by Director of the Russian Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, who is current chairman of the Council of Heads of Security and Intelligence Services of the CIS Member States. Last night, [...]

Polish President Kaczynski died in a Tupolev-154 airliner crash. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that the plane crashed in thick fog when landing. The airliner was en route from Warsaw to Smolensk, crashed 300 metres to 400 metres short of the runway of the Severny military airfield in Russia’s Smolensk region. [...]