Moscow's Chessboard Serial Killer
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As Alexander Pichuzkin goes on trial, observers are waiting to find out if the  self-confessed multiple killer achieved his goal: becoming the grandmaster of murder
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The mass murderers who seized the school in Beslan, Russia, this month committed one of the most heinous acts of terrorism in world history.
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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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MOSCOW : Attacks by Chechen separatists late Saturday in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic, left people several dead, including pro-Russian policemen, Russian news agencies reported, quoting pro-Russian officials.
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The BBC's James Rodgers asks if life in Moscow is really as dangerous as Western visitors to the city think.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess champion who made a name for himself by beating the Russians then turning his back on America - and the game - has died
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For Russian opposition campaigner and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, even something as simple as holding a meeting can be an obstacle course.
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Chess is very hard. As the game proceeds through its early and middle stages, the number of possible moves greatly increases.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Wednesday hosted the launch of a new book by murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the first by her to be widely available in her native land and language.
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Russian police claimed yesterday that one of the country&#39;s most brutal and enigmatic contract killings - the drive-by shooting of the American journalist Paul Klebnikov in July - had
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The widow of former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko has accused Moscow of involvement in his murder, as the probe into who administered the fatal dose of radioactivity widened.
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The âChessboard Killer,â who had hoped to become the most prolific murderer in post-Soviet Russian history, was convicted last week of murdering 48 people.
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A Russian historian said Thursday that he told British police he bumped into the chief suspect in the murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London earlier than the suspect admits being in the city, but police initially doubted his story.
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"Stalin's Ghost" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 333 pages, $26.95) &#151; Martin Cruz Smith: In Martin Cruz Smith's snowy Russia, the bodies only stay buried until the ground thaws. Senior Investigator Arkady Renko's problem is that he doesn't know when to stop digging once they appear.
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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.
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Alexander Pichushkin marked his 48 victims off on squares of a chessboard.