According to Russian news agencies, at least one person was wounded when a bomb blew up under the car of Beslan Shadiyev, the deputy interior minister of Russia's troubled southern region of Ingushetia.
Russian news agencies say a suicide bomber blew himself up in a truck at a police checkpoint in Ingushetia, an increasingly volatile Russian republic in the northern Caucasus, killing one other person and wounding at least five.
Instability in the North Caucasian republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya is intensifying. Violence and corruption are endemic, and Moscow is struggling to maintain a grip on the Russian Federation's restive southern republics.
In this edition: high-profile murders and spiralling violence in Russia's northern Caucasus; a new language law has caused a diplomatic row between Bratislava and Budapest; recession hits Germany's brothels.
A car bomb hit the main police station of the Ingush city of Nazran, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev sacked Ingushetia's interior minister following the attack.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has sacked the interior ministry chief in the republic of Ingushetia after a car bomb attack killed at least 20 people at the police headquarter in the southern city of Nazran, Russian news agencies reported.
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