Moscow prosecutors have charged Alexander Pichushkin, 32, nicknamed Bitsa Killer by the media in a reference to a locality where he had allegedly committed his crimes in recent months, with killing 49 people near the Bitsa Park in southwestern Moscow.
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December 15, 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, 2006
Businessmen Leonid Nevzlin, Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky still remain on the Interpol internationally wanted list, head of the Interpol bureau in Russia Timur Lakhonin said at a press conference at Interfax.
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December 12, 2006Russian police have seized propaganda materials from the office of the United People’s Front opposition group to check them for extremist content, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
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Interpol has joined the investigation into the killing of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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Russian authorities suspects IBM company of business fraud involving also Russian national pension fund and IBM local partners R-Style and Lanit, the Interfax news agency reports.
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December 8, 2006The Russian police annually expose about 100,000 crimes connected with illegal drug trafficking. Chief of the office of the Department for Combating Organized Crimes and Terrorism of the Russian Interior Ministry Stanislav Orlov told journalists about it on Tuesday.
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December 5, 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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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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Although their documents were completely in order, ORF (Austrian public channel) journalist Susanne Scholl and her team have been arrested on the 24th of november in Chechnya.
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November 30, 2006
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