News archive on the topic "Murmansk"

An armed attack on the governor of the Murmansk region, Andrei Chibis, took place in the city of Apatity, where he was meeting with residents. The man ran up to the official as he was leaving the Stroitel cultural center and stabbed him in the stomach. The attacker tried to escape, but was wounded in the leg by a National Guard and detained. Chibis was stabbed in the stomach and was hospitalized in Apatitsko-Kirovskaya...

The incident with the attempted arson of the government building of the Murmansk region two weeks ago has developed. FSB officers detained the arsonist, Denis Taranov, born in 2003. This “nerd” with glasses does not look like a terrorist and repents of his deeds, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I repent of what I did. I urge you not to do this and not to repeat it after me,” Taranov said on camera.…

As part of the struggle to maintain influence in the Arctic, the Russian state will have to implement large-scale renovation programs for northern cities, and the living environment must be competitive with Western countries. Governor of the Murmansk region Andrei Chibis stated this at a forum in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “...There can be no discussion here, of course, it is a national priority, and in the final year last year...

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation suppressed the activities of a supporter of the extremist organization “Right Sector”, who was preparing a terrorist attack near the local government building in Murmansk using an improvised explosive device. This was reported by the FSB press service, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the intelligence service, on December 10, 2019 in Murmansk, while seizing a high-power improvised explosive device from a cache,...

Ukraine will subject to sanctions residents of all regions of Russia who receive passports in the same offices as residents of the LDPR. Thus, the EU countries, at the request of Ukraine, will consider Russian passports invalid not only for Donetsk and Luhansk residents, but also for residents of other regions. Deputy Minister for “Occupied Territories” Georgiy Tuka stated this on the ATR TV channel, the correspondent reports...

The Federation Council will send an appeal to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation with a request to reconsider the results of the all-Russian vote within the framework of the “Great Names of Russia” project on naming the Murmansk airport after the last Emperor Nicholas II. Senator from the Murmansk region Igor Chernyshenko made a corresponding initiative during a meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The all-Russian voting on the project “Great Names of Russia” recently ended...

The Public Chamber of the Murmansk Region appealed to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation with a request not to approve the results of the online voting on naming the Murmansk airport after Nicholas II. TASS reports this, citing the chairman of the regional OP Yuri Manankov, according to whom, all members of the chamber who were present at the last plenary meeting voted for the decision to send the corresponding letter. “The public in the region actively opposed...

In Severomorsk, Murmansk region, a court found guilty of extremism a local resident who, in comments to an online publication, called for Murmansk to secede from the Russian Federation. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Murmansk region. The prosecutor's office notes that the man not only fully admitted his guilt, but also repented of his “convictions” and “actively assisted in the detection and investigation of the crime.” "It has been established...