A "suspicious device resembling a bomb" has been found in Sochi. Criminals "sappers" who arrived at the site decided to destroy the "suspicious device".

A fire extinguisher filled with a mixture of aluminum powder and saltpeter and wrapped with adhesive tape has been left by the "unknown persons" near the cinema center "Sochi". Sappers found an explosive device inside the fire extinguisher.

"As a result of the blasting of the device by sappers with all necessary precaution measures, citizens were not affected".

It is to be noted that if they wanted a blast, and not just to warn, they would have blown for real.

Terrorist attacks on Russian territory have doubled over the past year, RIA Novosti reports.

Speaking at a meeting dedicated to the work of law enforcement agencies in the North Caucasian Federal District, Prosecutor General Deputy Ivan Sydoruk said that the number of attacks in the region was up 100 percent in 2010.

According to Alexei Dymovskiy, leader of the "White Tape" movement, and Yuri Dzaganiya, local CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) leader, the attack in Sochi on Mikhail Vinyukov, chairman of the Sochi branch of the "White Tape", was an ordered the crime, organized by those dissatisfied with the activities of the rights defender.

Let us remind you that on October 25, at about 8:30, in the Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, two unidentified persons beat Mikhail Vinyukov with metal rods.

Russian officials admitted for the first time on Monday to being helpless in the face of terrorist attacks in the volatile North Caucasus region, reports the Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

The region has seen 352 attacks by militant Islamist separatists in the first nine months of this year, four times the figure of a year ago, North Caucasus Deputy Attorney General Ivan Sydoruk was quoted as saying.