According to news agency RIA-Novosti, Russian Senator Alexander Torshin said the suspects were U.S. citizens, ergo the case should not affect bilateral relations.
The earthquake in Japan has reduced the terrestrial day by 1.6 microseconds and shifted the earth's axis by about 15 centimeters, expert Richard Gross of NASA told RIA-Novosti.
And this is not simply an American phenomenon. The Russian state news agency RIANovosti reports that terrorist attacks on Russian territory doubled in 2010.