Murder

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.

Popularity: 3% [?]

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.

Popularity: 5% [?]

March 14, 2007

Man Left to Die With Limbs, Penis Bound by Wife

A woman outraged by her husband’s desire to make love to her wrapped up his penis with scotch tape and tried to force him into sexual intercourse. Her plan failed the woman wrapped her husband’s hands, legs and head with the tape and went to bed. The man died from suffocating, the website Pravda.Ru reported Thursday.

Popularity: 8% [?]

December 7, 2006

Russian Lawmakers Blame Boris Berezovsky in Spy’s Death

Poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko’s deathbed message may have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin, but pro-Kremlin lawmakers and state-controlled television networks pointed the finger at a prominent Putin enemy in Britain — tycoon Boris Berezovsky, the Associated Press reports.

Popularity: 3% [?]

November 27, 2006

Litvinenko’s Italian Contact Denies Role in Poisoning Plot

Mario Scaramella. Photo: REUTERS

Professor Mario Scaramella, 38, who describes himself as a defence consultant, was surrounded by four bodyguards as he arrived for the Rome conference, SkyNews reports. Journalists had been summoned by SMS texts.

Popularity: 3% [?]

November 22, 2006

Co-owner of Russian Private Bank Shot in Moscow

A co-owner of a small Russian private bank was gunned down in an apparent contract killing in central Moscow, prosecutors said Wednesday

Popularity: 2% [?]

Russian Court Orders Retrial in Paul Klebnikov Murder Case

The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of three suspects in the killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, a court spokesman is quoted by the Associated Press news agency.

Popularity: 2% [?]

November 9, 2006

Russian Teenager Arrested for Planning to Kill Hilary Duff

Police in Manhattan Beach, California, have arrested a Russian teenager for allegedly stalking 19-year-old singer-actress Hilary Duff.

Maksim Myaskovskiy is alleged to have threatened to kill Duff. He was taken into custody on charges of stalking and making criminal threats, and is now being held on a $200,000 bail.

The young Russian is reported to have told a private investigator on Friday that he planned to murder Hilary Duff at a public event on Sunday.

Popularity: 3% [?]

November 7, 2006

Second Faith Healer Killed in Southern Russia

Masked gunmen burst into the home of a well-known doctor and faith healer in the southern Russian region of Ingushetia on Monday and shot her dead.

Popularity: 2% [?]

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: 2% [?]

November 3, 2006