Worry is rising over the risk of terrorism at Russia’s 2014 Winter Olympics. Last week’s deadly attack on a hydroelectric station in Russia’s deep south only added to the concern. The number of attacks in the predominantly Muslim North Caucasus was up 57 percent last year, and unlike the Chechen wars of 1994–2001, these killings have been the work of a bewildering array of rebel groups, some motivated by radical Islam but others by separatism or clan warfare.

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The Division for Especially Important Cases of the Investigatory Department of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) for the Krasnodar Territory has sent to the Regional Court the criminal case about the series of explosions committed in Sochi in 2008-2009 and other crimes, as a result of which 14 persons perished and 20 more were wounded. Ilya Galkin, a former militiaman, and Mikhail Denisenko, an employee of a TV company, are accused of these crimes.

Currently, a former militiaman Ilya Galkin and a local resident Mikhail Denisenko, accused of triggering a series of explosions in the territory of Sochi in 2008-2009, get acquainted with the materials of the criminal case, which will then be sent to the public prosecutor for approval of the charge. Inspectors assert that the defendants' actions resulted in 7 casualties and about 20 victims.

In less than two weeks, a full year will have passed since the fatal shooting spree by a drunken Moscow police major that set off a public relations firestorm for Russia’s embattled Ministry of Internal Affairs. Russian media, politicians, and citizens alike have been overwhelmingly united in their calls for radical reform of a police force notorious for its brutality and corruption. While the president calls for staff cuts and wage increases and the internal minister faces a summertime deadline to show some results, scandalous incidents involving the police continue to appear almost daily in the Russian news. But even after so many stories of bribery, beatings, torture, harrassment, attempted murders, murders under the influence, driving under the influence, using people as human sheilds, using slave labor, and systemic corruption covering up so many other abuses of authority, one cop in the Urals region of Chelyabinsk has still found an ingenuitive way of outraging an already furious population.