Crime & Punishment

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: 11% [?]

December 7, 2006

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: 15% [?]

December 6, 2006

Georgian Police Detained 2 Russian Peacekeepers in South Ossetia

Georgian police said they detained two Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zone with breakaway South Ossetia, but commanders of the peacekeeping forces have denied the report.

Popularity: 4% [?]

December 5, 2006

British Police See FSB as Prime Suspect in Litvinenko Poisoning

Scotland Yard detectives arrive at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, December 4, 2006. Photo: REUTERS

Intelligence services in Britain are convinced that the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko was authorized by the Russian Federal Security Service, The Times newspaper reports.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Russian Priest Killed in Arson Attack

A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.

Popularity: 20% [?]

December 4, 2006

Over 400,000 Weapons Seized in 2006 in Russia

Police seized more than 400,000 units of weapons and ammunition in Russia during the first ten months of 2006, a senior police official said Tuesday.

Popularity: 2% [?]

November 28, 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: 5% [?]

November 27, 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: 6% [?]

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: 6% [?]

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: 3% [?]