Russian Cancels Pardon Request in Chechen Case
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A Russian Army colonel convicted of murdering a Chechen woman in 2000 has withdrawn his application for a pardon, the Russian news media reported Tuesday.
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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 prosecutors have halted an  investigation into the suspicious death of a defense reporter  who fell from his apartment building in March, his newspaper  reported on Wednesday.
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The top prosecutor said Tuesday that Moscow will not extradite possible Russian suspects to Britain in the poisoning of the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko and warned that British detectives would not be allowed to carry out interrogations in Russia.
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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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MOSCOW -- Russia has refused Britain's request to extradite a businessman accused in last year's fatal poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, prosecutors said yesterday.
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Chechen security forcesÂ brutish acts, such as the torture of a woman accused of adultery, have gone unpunished.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin faced a  dilemma Monday over whether to pardon an army colonel who  strangled a Chechen schoolgirl, risking upsetting allies in  Chechnya on the one hand or his powerful military on the other.
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A Russian court on Monday halted the retrial of three men accused of the 2004 murder of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, because one of the defendants was still at large, a lawyer for the defense said.
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A highly publicized piracy case against a schoolteacher in Russia was dismissed on Thursday, with a Russian District Court saying the case against the man was "trivial."
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Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses the Chechen president, naming PM Ramzan Kadyrov as his successor.
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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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Russia has sent Britain an official refusal to extradite the chief suspect in the murder last year of a former Russian agent in London, news agency Interfax quoted sources in Moscow as saying on Thursday.
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Russia suspends the extradition to Uzbekistan of 13 people facing terrorism charges.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 15 -- President Vladimir Putin dismissed the president of Chechnya on Thursday, clearing a path to the southern republic's highest office for Ramzan Kadyrov, the controversial prime minister of Chechnya who has been accused of major human rights abuses in his drive to pacify the war-torn region....
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InfoWorld - Charges have been dropped against a Russian school principal who faced up to five years in prison for software piracy, according to Russia&#39;s state news agency.
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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.