DUSHANBE, November 27, 2015, Asia-Plus – Two unemployed nationals of Tajikistan have been detained with TNT in the Leninsky district of Moscow oblast, TASS news agency reports.

“Three pistols Makarov, about 50 bullets and 171.3 grams of TNT have been confiscated from them,” Yelena Aleskeyeva a spokeswoman for the Russian interior Ministry, told TASS on November 26.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted against them under the provisions of Article 222 (1) of Russia’s Penal Code - illegal bearing, possession, acquisition and manufacture of weapons; an investigation is under way.