Outspoken Putin critic shot dead in Moscow
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead on Saturday at her apartment block in central Moscow, police said.
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GROZNY: Dozens of people were killed in a weekend Chechen rebel offensive on the eve of a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials said on Monday.
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A British minister on Sunday condemned "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia and media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe the radiation death in London of a former KGB spy.
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MOSCOW -- A military correspondent for Russia's top business daily died after falling from a fifth-story window, and some in the news media speculated Monday that he might have been killed for his critical reporting.
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A British minister on Sunday condemned  "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia and  media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe  the radiation death in London of a former KGB spy.
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MOSCOW -- The first deputy chairman of Russia's central bank died in a hospital today, hours after gunmen with automatic weapons attacked him outside a Moscow sports stadium, officials said. Andrei Kozlov, 41, a high-profile figure who was in charge of cleaning up the murky and fragmented banking system, had been shot in the chest and head. Sources close to ...
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LONDON -- A former KGB agent poisoned in London said in interviews before his death that he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published and broadcast yesterday. Alexander Litvinenko, a fierce critic of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, died Thursday of heart failure after becoming ill from what doctors ...
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Russian president stokes diplomatic row over murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the breakaway republic of Chechnya to honor its slain pro-Russian leader Akhmad Kadyrov, hours after rebel attacks left several dead in Grozny, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected Western criticism he is using his energy policies as a weapon, denounced the deployment of U.S. anti-missile systems in eastern Europe, and said he didn't believe in conspiracy theories in the poisoning death of a former KGB officer.
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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 top deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank died Thursday morning after being gunned down by two assailants the night before near a Moscow football stadium, a medical source told Russia's state-run Interfax news agency.
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Russian special forces shot dead a  former Guantanamo Bay inmate in southern Russia on Wednesday,  the FSB security service said, describing him as an extremist.
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A top-ranking regional police officer and three bodyguards were gunned down in southern Russia late Wednesday, police said. The assassination was the latest attack in the troubled region bordering war-wracked Chechnya.
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The tragedy at the Beslan school number one that ended in the deaths of hundreds of small children, teachers and parents has left Vladimir Putin under the spotlight and the subject of sharp criticism for his anti-terrorism strategy.
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Suspect in murder of Russian dissident says former spy's death was caused by 'reckless way of life'
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President Vladimir Putin has fired the  commander of Russia&#39;s navy, taking to at least four the number  of top brass dismissed since he appointed a new defense  minister, media in Russia reported on Friday.