Russian top prosecutor’s office has issued an official apology to a man unlawfully charged with murdering an investigative journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who was killed in a bomb blast at his newspaper’s office back in 1994, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reports.
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December 19, 2006Moscow city hall denied permission to hold a march to commemorate journalists killed in Russia over the past years. The event was to take place next Sunday, the radio station Ekho Moskvy reports.
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December 12, 2006Russian authorities have detained Ivan Mironov, the 25-year-old history student, who had been wanted over an assassination attempt on the head of the Unified Energy Systems of Russia joint-stock company, Anatoly Chubais, RIA Novosti news agency reported December 12. Boris Mironov, father of the detainee and former Russian Federation Press Minister has also been detained in Moscow recently.
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Forbes Russia editor-in-chief said Monday he had withdrawn his resignation after the parties to the last week’s conflict came to term over the December issue. The issue will be printed ’in its original form,’ the magazine’s publisher said Friday, a day after lawsuit threats prompted the destruction of thousands of copies of the magazine and its editor’s resignation.
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December 4, 2006The poisoning of fugitive former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko was a fiendishly clever example of stage-managed murder, Russian experts said Monday, as lurid new theories emerged about who ordered the attack in London.
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November 28, 2006Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, has offered $30 million for the Internet publication Gazeta.ru in a bid to expand his media assets, a source said Friday.
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November 24, 2006The media holding of Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, Gazprom, plans to buy the country’s most widely read newspaper, “Komsomolskaya Pravda.”
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November 22, 2006A Moscow district court has sentenced the editor in chief of an extremist publication to five years in prison for provoking ethnic hatred and making extremist calls.
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November 20, 2006More than 100 people gathered at a central Moscow square Wednesday to mark the death last month of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the end of the traditional Russian 40-day period of mourning, AP reported.
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November 16, 2006The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of three suspects in the killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, a court spokesman is quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
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