Crime & Punishment

Moscow Doctor Arrested for Sale of HIV-Negative Certificates

Olga Varnavskya, an employee of dermatovenerologic clinic, issued HIV-negative certificates for everyone who was ready to pay 1500 rubles ($60) for it, Pravda.Ru reports.

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May 22, 2007

Russian Man Pretends to be American to Escape Legal Persecution

A Russian man, who wanted to escape legal persecution, pretended to be an American citizen who ventured to travel across Russia without money and documents to set a new Guinness Record.

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May 19, 2007

US Couple Gets 4 Years for Adopted Russian Child’s Death

The adoptive parents of a Russian child were each sentenced to four years in prison for causing the death of their son more than six years ago.

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May 13, 2007

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 Photographer Killed in Iraq

Six U.S. troops and a Russian photographer were killed by a roadside bomb blast in Iraq, the editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine said Monday.

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May 7, 2007

Football Hooligan Shot Dead in Moscow Cafe

Unidentified assailants gunned down a customer at one of the popular PirO.G.I. cafes in central Moscow in what police said was likely an ordinary argument that turned deadly, The Moscow Times reported on Wednesday, May 2.

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May 2, 2007

Son of Top Russian Official Arrested for Drunken Bashing in London

The son of Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister was jailed for attacking a fellow investment banker in a drunken brawl at a party in London’s East End, East London Advertiser reported May 1.

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Violence Breaks Out as Estonia Remove Soviet War Memorial

Estonia’s parliament was behind barricades Saturday as violence rocked Tallinn for a second night after the removal of a Soviet war memorial, the AFP news arency reports.

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April 28, 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

Russians Pay Last Respect to First President Yeltsin

Tearful Russians filed past the open coffin of former president Boris Yeltsin inside a vast Moscow cathedral Tuesday in a ceremony that reflected the changes that transformed the country during his eight years in power.

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April 25, 2007