A local court sentenced two top Russian officials, from the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, to eight to ten years in prison for accepting a million dollar bribe, Russian news agencies reported
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April 24, 2007Czech police have detained internationally wanted Russian banker Ilya Stashevski in the refugee centre in Vysni Lhoty, local judge Cestmir Duda told CTK Czech News Agency today.
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April 20, 2007A Russian businessman who backed Ukraine’s prime minister in the disputed 2004 elections was shot dead by a sniper outside a Kiev court on Tuesday, the Financial Times daily reports.
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March 29, 2007Investigators 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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March 21, 2007A Russian court on Monday convicted six men for selling forged copies of number plates and passes reserved for senior Kremlin officials and the presidential bodyguard.
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March 20, 2007Several dozens people were detained as Georgian law enforcers held a special operation against bribery in the country’s tax service, Russian news agency Interfax reported on Tuesday quoting a source in Georgian Interior Ministry.
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March 14, 2007A Russian policeman has been jailed for phoning an airport with a bomb warning to help acquaintances of his boss make their flight, the Reuters news agency reports quoting an article in the Friday issue of Russian daily Kommersant.
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March 12, 2007The Mayor of Tomsk Alexander Makarov suspected of power abuse suffered a heart attack when police searched his office on Wednesday night, a spokesman for the mayor’s office told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
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December 7, 2006
UK band Razorlight have confirmed they were forced to cancel a gig in Russia on November 24 when Moscow officials demanded “an astronomical amount of cash” for a permit to perform.
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November 29, 2006Two ex-prosecutors accused of bribe-taking were sentenced to four-year imprisonment by a Moscow court, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday.
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