The Russian prosecutor’s office said the suspect, a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, confessed to planting the bomb on the orders of Ukrainian agents.

By bne IntelliNews The Embassy of Uzbekistan in Moscow on December 18 commented on the situation following the detention of a 29-year-old Uzbek national over the scooter-bomb assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov,

Authorities said they had arrested an Uzbek national born in 1995 for working with Ukrainian special services to plant a bomb on a scooter outside the general's residence.

A senior Russian general was killed in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood in Moscow, Russian media reported early Tuesday.

A 29-year-old Uzbekistan citizen has been detained over the death of Kirillov and his assistant, state media says.

Uzbekistan's mobile-exclusive bank, TBC Bank Uzbekistan, has raised $37 million to bolster its footprint in the Central Asian nation.

Gloria Jeans, the federal network for the sale of clothes in the mass market segment in Russia, is going to close some of its production sites, particularly in the Rostov region. According to the Russian news outlet Kommersant,

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