Russian serial killer: "I felt like God"
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The Russian supermarket worker found  guilty of murdering 48 people told his trial on Thursday he  felt like God as he decided if his victims should live or die.
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A Russian man who said he wanted to record a killing for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard was found guilty Wednesday of murdering 48 people in Moscow
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Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly, barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or more people including children in a siege in Russia sparked strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders.
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MOSCOW (BBC News) - His mother blamed the killing spree on a childhood bang on the head. The Russian man known as the "chessboard killer," Alexander Pichushkin, will be sentenced on Thursday after a jury in Moscow found him guilty killing 48 people and attempting to murder three others. During the six-week trial at Moscow City Court, Pichushkin confessed to murdering more than 60 people in a killing spree which lasted more than a decade.  If this figure is eventually confirmed by investigators, it would make Pichushkin the deadliest serial killer in Russian history and one of the world's worst.  Prosecutors have called for him to be locked up for the rest of his life in a solitary cell in a maximum security prison.
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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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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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(Corrects name of IFPI representative to Pozhitkov from  Pozhitkin, makes clear Russian trial was initiated by Russian  state and was not civil case, paragraphs 12-14)
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A man arrested on suspicion of murdering five women speaks of his relief at being told he faces no charges.
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The Person of the Year choice was greeted with media fanfare and complaints by critics. TIME's Moscow correspondent appraises the reaction
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."
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Man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of victims on chessboard goes on trial in Russia.
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After bootlegged vodka poisons thousands in Russia, John Sweeney looks at how the country is coping with the Yellow Death.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders, which he recorded on a chessboard, to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killing cases
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In a terrifying videotape, 10-year-old Georgy Farniyev sat near a bomb, his hands behind his head and his face a mask of misery. He looked certain to die, but survived through luck, self-possession beyond his years and enough grit to pull shrapnel out of his own arm.
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MICHURINO, Russia  - Alexander, a 14-year-old Christian from the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, achieved two firsts this summer -- he saw the sea and formed a friendship with a Muslim boy from Chechnya.
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A rare radioactive substance killed an ex-KGB spy turned Kremlin critic, the British government said Friday. In a dramatic statement written before he died, the man called Russian President Vladimir Putin "barbaric and ruthless" and blamed him personally for the poisoning.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The family of a man believed killed by Russian forces in Chechnya are hoping his bloodstained wallet will finally provide evidence of his fate.