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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.

Popularity: 10% [?]

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.

Popularity: 10% [?]

March 21, 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.

Popularity: 11% [?]

March 14, 2007

Jewish Group May Sue Russia Over Seized Writings

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Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.

Popularity: 17% [?]

December 6, 2006

Moscow Court Sentences Ex-prosecutors to Prison for Bribe-taking

Two ex-prosecutors accused of bribe-taking were sentenced to four-year imprisonment by a Moscow court, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday.

Popularity: 6% [?]

November 27, 2006

Woman Hired a Criminal to Kill her Ex-Husband Who Had Won a Million in a Lottery

The angry Russian woman from the small town in the Caucasus hired a criminal to kill her ex-husband who had won a million in a lottery, the News.ru website reported Friday.

48-year-old retired military officer Alexei Rykov had bought just one lottery ticket as a present for his own birthday and the ticket proved to be lucky — the man won one million rubles (about $37,000). He used the money to buy an apartment (until then the family was renting) and a car.

Popularity: 4% [?]

November 3, 2006

Drunk Man Killed Girlfriend and Six of Her Relatives.

A court in Chelyabinsk, central Russia, jailed a local resident for life after the man was found guilty of murdering his live-in civil partner and six of her relatives.

Popularity: 3% [?]