According to the source inside the Staff of Eastern Front of CRI Armed Forces, in early July up to 40 armed Kadyrovans fled to the mountains to the Mujahideen. According to the source, former Kadyrovans were taken to the special quarantine base in the mountains of Chechnya.

Relatives of the more than 330 victims of the Beslan school siege have released a video that they say proves Russian security forces caused the massacre by firing grenades on the besieged building.

Even by Russian standards, the Litvinenko affair has been exceptionally murky. But, paradoxically, it has also been marked by a heightened sense of mirror-image symmetry. Either President Vladimir Putin is the villain or anti-Putin tycoon Boris Berezovsky is; Andrei Lugovoi was either the killer or himself a victim.