A Moscow court has found Sergei Mavrodi, founder of a multi-million-dollar investment scheme, involving at least 2 million people in the 1990s, guilty of massive fraud.
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April 24, 2007A 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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Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery on Wednesday, the Kremlin press service has said.
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Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation died suddenly on Monday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported quoting the Kremlin press service.
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April 23, 2007British detectives are set to issue arrest warrants for three Russians they suspect killed former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, the France Presse news agency reported quoting an article in The Mail on Sunday newspaper.
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Czech 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, 2007Swedish 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, 2007Russian police clubbed and detained opposition protestors St. Petersburg on Sunday during a non-sanctioned rally against President Vladimir Putin, The Associated Press Reports.
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April 16, 2007Authorities said Thursday they have halted the work of all foreign adoption agencies in Russia for several months, The Associated Press news agency reports.
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April 13, 2007The Kremlin has vetoed a move to launch a fresh investigation into the death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, despite aviation specialists’ belief that they have unraveled one of the 20th century’s greatest enigmas.
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