Russian Who Murdered Chechen No Longer Seeks Pardon
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A Russian colonel convicted of murdering a Chechen woman has withdrawn his request for a pardon, sparing President Vladimir Putin the uncomfortable choice of offending either the volatile region or his military.
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Russia on Thursday officially refused a request from Britain to extradite the chief suspect in the murder last year of a former Russian agent in London, the Russian prosecutor general&#39;s office said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, the man Alexander Litvinenko has accused of killing him, has said he "deplores" the death of the former KGB agent.Comment
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Gunmen have murdered a Russian central   banker who led a fight against money laundering in the highest   profile assassination in Moscow during President Vladimir   Putin's six years in power.
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Col. Yuri Budanov, a Russian officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for kidnapping and murdering a Chechen woman he accused of being a sniper, was pardoned by a regional amnesty commission, the Interfax news agency reported Friday.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The family of a Canadian slain by Russian security forces in Chechnya wants his body returned to Canada.
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Chechnya's rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov said that warlord Shamil Basayev would be put on trial for masterminding the hostage siege in Beslan which killed more than 330 people, once fighting has stopped in the breakaway republic.
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Russia has sent Britain a letter officially turning down a request to extradite the main suspect in the murder of Russian emigre Alexander Litvinenko, Interfax news agency said on Thursday.
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MOSCOW -- In an Internet posting, a Chechen warlord with a $10 million bounty on his head has apparently claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege and promised more attacks on Russian civilians if Chechnya is not granted independence.
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Russia dismissed speculation on  Wednesday it could hand over the man suspected of murdering  Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in exchange for Britain  extraditing a tycoon wanted in Moscow.
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A former Chechen politician is charged as an accomplice in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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The former policeman Alu Alkhanov capped the official announcement of his election as Chechnya&#39;s president yesterday by demanding that the separatist militant leader, Aslan Maskhadov, face trial and apologise to the Chechen people.
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The attorney general says the suspect wanted for the murder of a former KGB agent must be extradited.
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The Chechen separatist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, tried to distance himself from extremists in the independence movement yesterday by declaring that his former commander-in-chief Shamil Basayev would one day stand trial for ordering the Beslan school siege.
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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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GROZNY -- Former colonel Yury Budanov, who was convicted last year of kidnapping and murdering a Chechen woman, on Tuesday withdrew his request for a pardon after it drew outrage and protests in Chechnya and opposition from prosecutors and human rights
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A court Thursday handed out a prison sentence to a man accused of involvement to the 1998 murder of a liberal Russian lawmaker but set another convict free.