An ax embedded in a log was found outside the apartment of Alexei Venediktov, editor of Russia’s largest independent radio station, Ekho Moskvy, the Russian daily Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.

Fears that a lawyer representing several high profile critics of Russia's government may have been poisoned appear unfounded, French authorities told the BBC.

The number of storage sites for radioactive waste number in the thousands, and they are difficult to monitor, Yevgeny Yevstratov, deputy head of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom told journalists in St. Petersburg.