A 14-year-old Russian swimming champion, in Melbourne for the 12th FINA World Championships, has been arrested for shoplifting, the Herald Sun daily reported on Wednesday.
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March 22, 2007A court in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, sentenced Thursday a defendant to five years in prison for the theft of 77 exhibits from the Hermitage Museum, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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March 15, 2007Losses to copyright holders from piracy in Russia in the first ten months of 2006 exceeded 2.48 billion rubles ($93.1 million), Interfax agency reports.The ministry’s department for economic security said 6,432 criminal cases were launched during the period, against only 2,924 cases in 2005.
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November 17, 2006Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has personally caught a 10-year old boy who tried to steal her mobile phone in a Starbucks cafe in Madrid.
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