Theater director Zhenya Berkovich, left, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are seen in a glass cage prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 20, 2024. Berkovich, a prominent ...

In October 2002, armed militants stormed a Moscow theater during a sold-out performance and took hundreds of people hostage.

Theater director Zhenya Berkovich, right, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are seen in a glass cage prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 8, 2024. Berkovich, a prominent ...

Dmitry Milovidov, who lost his daughter, heads an association of families of victims of the siege – Copyright AFP Yuri KADOBNOV Twenty years after Chechen ...

MOSCOW (voa) – Russian forces are now in control of a theater in Moscow where a group of Chechen rebels had been holding an estimated 700 people hostage. Officials say at least 36 of the ...

A Moscow court adjourned to an unspecified date the trial of theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk, who are charged with justifying terrorism, after Berkovich felt ...

A Russian court on Monday convicted a theater director and a playwright of terrorism charges and sentenced them to six years each in prison, the latest in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent across ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on ...