Video - Powerful explosion near mosque in Nazran, Caucasus Region.

Video - Powerful explosion near mosque in Nazran, Caucasus Region.(RT).

A powerful blast has been reported outside a mosque in the city of Nazran, southern Russia. At least two people have been injured.

“A private car parked near the mosque was blown up,” a security forces source told RIA Novosti, adding that at least two people were injured.

According to RIA, a gas cylinder went off in the car.

TASS, however, says an explosive device caused the blast, citing sources in Ingushetia's law enforcement. The agency says at least one person is in the emergency unit of a local hospital.

The blast occurred in the afternoon, when Friday prayers were taking place at the mosque.Read the full story here.

leader of Crimean Tatars, Dzhemilev: "Crimean Tatars facing mass conscription into Russian army"

leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev: "Crimean Tatars facing mass conscription into Russian army"(ZIK)

The leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, says the Russian authorities are registering males and a massive conscription into the Russian army is to start on Jan. 1.

“It is clear the Tatars will refuse to serve in the Russian army,” he said.

The Russians are just looking for an excuse to banish the Tatars from Crimea,” he said.

Video - Moscow Stabbing Death by Muslim Sets off Street Riots.

Video - Moscow Stabbing Death by Muslim Sets off Street Riots.(RT).

The stabbing death of an ethnic Russian man has ignited anger in Moscow against people from the Caucasus, with demonstrators breaking into a shopping center and storming a vegetable warehouse Sunday evening. Police detained hundreds of people.

A native of the North Caucasus, a region in southern Russia, is believed to have killed the 25-year-old man. Caucasus natives, most of whom are dark-complexioned and Muslim, work in the shopping center and at vegetable markets in the Russian capital.

Egor Shcherbakov and his girlfriend were on their way home, when the young couple were attacked by an unidentified man who stabbed Shcherbakov with a knife. Shcherbakov’s girlfriend described the attacker as a male native of the Caucasus and said that he had assaulted her boyfriend after trying to harass her.

The Investigative Committee, Russia’s main investigative agency, said in a statement that the man was killed in a dispute over his girlfriend as the couple returned home on Thursday. Investigators have questioned witnesses, the statement said. Police released a photograph of the suspect taken by a security camera, but he has not been identified.

Video streamed live on Dozhd television showed the unrest in Biryulyovo, a working-class district in far southern Moscow. Hundreds of ethnic Russians were involved in the protests, and some of them chanted nationalist slogans.

The city police department called up additional forces to try to quell the violence. Police also moved to close off a square just outside the Kremlin to prevent a repeat of 2010 riots, when thousands of nationalists and soccer fans protested the killing of an ethnic Russian during a fight between soccer fans and natives of the North Caucasus.

The number of those arrested rises to 380, police says. Those 380 detained are being questioned as witnesses in a criminal case on hooliganism, police spokesman told RIA. Given the circumstances, 30 investigators are conducting urgent investigative activities on detainees over violations of public order, the source added.

Local activists met with police representatives again, discussing the creation of voluntary people's guard in order to find the perpetrator as soon as possible. Authorities said that Moscow Police Chief Anatoly Yakunin takes investigation under personal control. A 1-million-rubble (around $31,000) bounty has been placed for the capture of the suspect. Read the full story here.