Swedish 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, 2007
Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers are quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
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December 17, 2006
German investigators are considering the possibility that polonium-210 was smuggled through the country and might be connected to the radioactive poisoning of a Russian security service defector in London, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
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December 13, 2006Georgian 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.
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December 5, 2006
Intelligence services in Britain are convinced that the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko was authorized by the Russian Federal Security Service, The Times newspaper reports.
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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.
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November 28, 2006Police in the South Ossetia region killed four Georgian “saboteurs†on Tuesday, a South Ossetian minister said, raising tension days before Ossetians vote in an independence referendum, the Reuters news agency reported.
South Ossetia threw off Georgian rule in fighting during the early 1990s. A ceasefire was signed but violence has simmered between the two sides, especially since the fiery pro-Western Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili was elected in 2004.
“A group of Georgian saboteurs has been eliminated this morning,†South Ossetia’s emergency minister, Boris Chochiev, told Reuters. He did not give any details about who the men were working for or what they were doing.
“According to preliminary reports there were four of them. All of them have been killed.â€
Georgian authorities said they had no information about any of their police or military being killed.
Last month a helicopter carrying Georgia’s defence minister was hit by gunfire as it flew over South Ossetia and a shoot out between police killed three South Ossetians and one Georgian.
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October 31, 2006
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