Russians tie killing of official to reform
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MOSCOW -- The slaying of a leading Russian central banker probably was related to his work, which involved shutting down banks engaged in illegal activities such as money laundering, authorities said yesterday.
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A court Friday convicted two men of charges stemming from the high-profile 1998 murder of a liberal Russian lawmaker, news agencies reported.
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Russia's bankers offered a big reward on   Friday for information on the killers of a top central bank   official who had crusaded against money laundering.
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Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament gave tentative backing Friday to a key electoral reform proposed by President Vladimir Putin following a series of recent terror attacks that have killed hundreds and stunned Russians.
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British police said on Wednesday they were now treating the death of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder.
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Russia will revamp its security forces  and seek international cooperation to hunt militants in the  wake of a school siege which killed more than 300 people nine  days ago, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.
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The most senior Russian army officer to have been convicted of war crimes in Chechnya was put forward for a presidential pardon yesterday, less than 18 months after he was found guilty of strangling an 18-year-old Chechen woman.
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Russia also announced it had opened its own criminal investigation into the death of Alexander V. Litvinenko.
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A Chechen crime boss and career officers from the police and intelligence services were among those arrested for roles in the contract killing of Anna Politkovskaya.
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Chicago Tribune - Moscow police are holding two Chechen men suspected in the slaying of American journalist Paul Klebnikov, whose murder shook the journalism community here and stirred memories of the kind of gangland mayhem that characterized Russia's turbulent 1990s.
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Ten suspects, including Russian police and security officials, have been arrested in the killing last year of crusading investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the country's top prosecutor announced yesterday.
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British police are treating the death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder, they confirm.
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the killing of a top Central Bank official underlined Russia's problem with economic crimes and ordered the main security service and other government agencies to mount a coordinated crackdown.
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Russia will revamp its security forces and seek international cooperation to hunt militants in the wake of a school siege which killed more than 300 people nine days ago, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.
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British police said on Wednesday that  they were now treating the case of poisoned former Russian spy  Alexander Litvinenko as murder.
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A co-owner of a small Russian private bank was gunned down in an apparent contract killing in central Moscow, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin was convicted last week of murdering 48 people and trying to kill three others. The Russian news media had dubbed him the Chessboard Killer.