Crime & Punishment

Russian Schoolboy Hurts Teacher 9 Times with Knife for Bad Mark

A physics teacher in the city of Irkutsk was hurt nine times with a knife by her own pupil. As a REGNUM correspondent was told today at Irkutsk regional police department, the teacher was attacked near her house.

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May 8, 2007

Russian Cellist, Conductor Rostropovich Dies

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died. He was 80.

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April 27, 2007

Four Russians Arrested in Sweden Over Human Trafficking

Swedish prosecutors have charged a group of 24 Russians and Swedes with human trafficking, pimping and buying sex from nine Russian women, the AFP news agency reports.

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April 18, 2007

Georgia Sues Russia in Strasbourg Court Over Deportations

Georgia’s Ministry of Justice has announced it is suing Russia in the European Court of Human Rights for departing Georgian citizens illegally, the UPI reported March 26.

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March 27, 2007

Forbes Loses Libel Court Case Against Russia’s Richest Woman

A Moscow court ruled on Wednesday that Forbes magazine had defamed Russia’s richest woman and ordered it to pay her about 110,000 rubles ($4,224) in compensation, the Interfax news agency reports.

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March 21, 2007

British Citizen Among Victims of Russian Coal Mine Blast

A British citizen was among dozens of people killed in a gas explosion at a remote Siberian coal mine, Telegraph.co.uk reported March 20. Total number of victims of the deadly blast is currently 106 people, at least a dozen have not been found yet.

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Man Shoots Himself After Blowing Up Neighbor’s Toilet

A pensioner in the Russian region of Primorye blew up his neighbor’s toilet and then killed himself following an apparent quarrel between them on Monday afternoon, RIA Novosti reported March 20.

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Ukraine’s Prosecutors Search Apartment of Oppositionist Ex-minister

Investigators Tuesday searched the apartment of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko who is now an opponent of the powerful prime minister and his Cabinet, The Associated Press news agency reports, quoting Lutsenko’s spokeswoman.

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Former Soviet Dissident Killed in U.S. by ‘Coldblooded’ Hip-Hop DJ

Brian “DJ Coldblooded” White beat a former Soviet political prisoner to death with a rock Thursday at a highway rest stop in the United Stated after the victim declined to buy his religious CDs.

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March 17, 2007

Two Soviet Emigrants Sentenced to Death in California for Yosemite Killings

A court in California has sentenced two Soviet emigrants to death for kidnapping and brutally murdering five people, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Tuesday.

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March 14, 2007