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, 2007A 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 district court in Moscow has sentenced two elevator mechanics to two years in prison colony each after an 8-year-old boy had been strangled by elevator doors in a high-rise apartment block, the Gazeta.ru online daily reported on Wednesday.
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April 4, 2007Seven Russian terrorism suspects once held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered torture and other abuse after being returned home in 2004, reads a new report by Human Rights Watch quoted by AFP.
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March 29, 2007A Moscow court ordered Mikhail Khodorkovsky transferred from a Siberian prison to a detention facility in the Russian capital amid a new investigation into theft and money laundering charges against the former oil tycoon, The Associated Press news agency reported on Tuesday quoting Khodorkovsky’s lawyer.
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March 21, 2007Chechnya’s supreme court on Monday sentenced a Turkish man to 23 years in prison for carrying out attacks against civilians, police and Russian soldiers in the restive Caucasus state, Interfax reported.
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March 14, 2007London’s Harrow Crown Court sentenced a Russian bank chief to six year prison term for coordinating an international identity theft operation, SC Magazine reported Wednesday.
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December 20, 2006Two Russian youths were sentenced to prison terms for a racially motivated attack on a Somali television reporter in the eastern Russian city of Yekaterinburg, RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday.
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December 14, 2006The Eton-educated son of a Russian oil billionaire who killed a friend in a high-speed car crash was yesterday jailed for 6,5 years, The Times online website reported.
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December 8, 2006A Navy petty officer was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday with an additional 13 years suspended for giving a foreign government a secret manual for the Tomahawk missile system. He told authorities he tried to trade the information for asylum, the Times Dispatch website reported.
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