Russian investigators have obtained data from the mobile phones of those accused of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall near Moscow, who tried to destroy the devices, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Friday.
Tajikistan has detained nine people this week suspected of having links to a mass shooting at a Russian concert hall last Friday and also to the militant Islamist group that claimed responsibility, a Tajik security source told Reuters. Four suspected gunmen behind the deadliest attack in Russia in 20 years are Tajik citizens. Tajikistan's state security committee detained nine people on Monday in the city of Vakhdat and the suspects are now in the capital, Dushanbe, the source said, without providing any further details.
A Russian court extended Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's pre-trial detention extended to at least June 30, marking a year he has been in the custody of the Federal Security Service.
The West and Navalny s supporters have dismissed the Russian prison service s statement on Friday that the 47-year-old had lost consciousness and died. Western leaders have said Putin is responsible for Navalny s death, a stance the Kremlin condemned on Monday as "obnoxious". Putin has made no public comment on Navalny s death but it has further deepened a gaping schism in relations between Moscow and the West caused by the nearly two-year Ukraine war.