Russian police hunt central banker's killers
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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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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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Prosecutors released two suspects in the contract-style killing of investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, Russian news agencies reported Thursday, and a third is no longer linked to the case.
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Moscow police have arrested two Chechens  they suspect of involvement in the murder of an American  journalist who wrote about Russia's richest people and had also  written a book on war and crime in Chechnya.
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Police hunting a killer dubbed the &quot;Suffolk Strangler&quot; after the deaths of five prostitutes are focusing on five key suspects, media reports said.
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Britain is using the case of murdered Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in a political campaign that is harming ties with Moscow, Russia's foreign minister said on Friday.
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A top Russian central banker who led an   aggressive drive to clean up Russia's murky banking system died   early on Thursday after being ambushed by gunmen in what law   enforcement officials said was a contract 'hit'.
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A Russian central banker who fought to   clean up his country's murky banking system died early on   Thursday from gunshot wounds after being ambushed by assassins   in what police said was a contract 'hit'.
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UP to seven people were killed today in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Investigators searched through heaps of mangled bodies and metal strewn over dozens of miles of fields and birch groves in two Russian regions
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Gunmen shot and seriously wounded the   first deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank and killed his   driver on Wednesday night in Moscow, Interfax news agency   quoted police as saying.
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Russian police have arrested a third  Chechen in their investigation into the murder of a U.S.  reporter who wrote about the volatile region and charted the  fortunes of the rich, local media reported Friday.
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Russian investigators were under  pressure on Wednesday to establish quickly who was behind a  suicide bomb attack on a busy Moscow street that killed 10  people and injured 51.
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The prosecutor of Russia's Volga region  of Saratov was killed overnight and police believe his murder  could be linked to his anti-corruption drive, Russian media  reported on Thursday.
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LONDON -- Russia plans to send investigators to London to conduct inquiries into the death of a former KGB agent, the chief prosecutor's office said yesterday, as forensic teams combed two houses in Germany and a London hotel now at the center of the investigation into his poisoning.
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Police step up inquiries into the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, with officers due to fly to Moscow.
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MOSCOW - Russian investigators were under pressure last night to establish quickly who was behind a suicide bomb attack on a busy Moscow street that killed 10 people and injured 51.