DEATH PENALTY: Russians Say Spare Saddam's Life
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MOSCOW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Russian politicians and Muslim leaders here have  thrown their weight against the death sentence handed down early  this month to Saddam Hussein, and suggest that an independent,  international tribunal be set up to retry the former Iraqi  president.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday found the Russian authorities responsible for the killings of four members of a Chechen family in 2003 and ordered Moscow to pay a relative $114,000.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders, which he recorded on a chessboard, to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killing cases
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[World News]: Moscow, Oct 27 : Three senior Russian officials have been charged with negligence in connection with last month&#39;s Beslan school crisis that left at least 350 people, mostly children, dead.
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The fate of an army colonel convicted of murdering a Chechen woman will be decided by President Vladimir Putin following a Russian governor's decision to support pardoning the officer, Russian media reported Monday.
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The widow of murdered Alexander Litvinenko says the Russian authorities could have been behind his death.
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Moscow on Saturday expressed strongindignation over Dutch foreign minister&#39;s remarks on Russia&#39;s school hostage-taking crisis that caused at least 322 people dead.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.
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As the saying goes, there are only two things certain in this world: death and taxes. This week, Russia&#39;s tax enforcers decided to simplify that truism by boiling it down to death by taxes.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA - Three Russian police officers have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the Beslan school hostage-taking that left 360 people dead, almost half of them children.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Jan 17 (IPS) - The abolition of the death penalty in Uzbekistan --  the 135th state to abandon state-sanctioned killing --  effectively means the entire central Asian region has now  consigned to history a punishment that was strongly associated  with the days of the Soviet empire.
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Moscow, Sept. 5 (NNN): Russia on Sunday buried some of the victims of hostage crisis in Beslan in North Ossetia with three more children succumbing to injuries taking the toll in school tragedy to 333 as parents
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Qatar said on Thursday it would hand over  to Moscow two Russian spies serving life sentences in the Gulf  Arab state for assassinating an exiled Chechen leader.
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MOSCOW: Russia said on Friday terrorists were behind one of the passenger-jet crashes as an Islamic group, which previously claimed an attack on prime minister-designate Shaukat Aziz, claimed responsibility for the twin plane crashes to avenge the killing
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As the people of Beslan bury their dead, it is worth asking how Russia as a democracy has coped with the most lethal terrorist incident since September 11, 2001.
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BERLIN/PARIS: Russia agreed overnight (NZT) to back an agreement to forgive up to 80 per cent, or about $US33 billion ($NZ47.32 billion) worth, of Iraq&#39;s debts to the Paris Club of creditors, paving the way for further such write-offs by other countries.