Russian wanted son killed over cramped flat-paper
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A Russian woman paid a former convict to kill her 17-year-old son because she was fed up with sharing her small one-room flat with him, the newspaper Izvestia reported on Wednesday.
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Authorities described the shooting of Andrei Kozlov, who had tried to combat money laundering, as a contract killing.
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Russia's most wanted man, Chechen rebel   leader Shamil Basayev, was killed during an overnight operation   by special forces, the state security chief told President   Vladimir Putin on Monday.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital on Thursday three weeks after he was poisoned in what friends said was a plot orchestrated by the Kremlin.
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Gunmen kill a Gypsy man and his two sons in the troubled Russian republic of Ingushetia.
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Andrei Lugovoi says the British intelligence service is behind the murder of Kremlin opponent Alexander Litvinenko.
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Authorities described the shooting of Andrei Kozlov, a Russian bank regulator, as a contract killing.
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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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The âChessboard Killer,â who had hoped to become the most prolific murderer in post-Soviet Russian history, was convicted last week of murdering 48 people.
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British officials chose unusually sharp language to protest Moscowâs refusal to extradite the man accused of murdering a former KGB agent.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia  - Hundreds of protesters ransacked and occupied the regional administration building in a southern Russian province Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the region's president, whose former son-in-law has been linked to a multiple slaying.
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Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered over a damaging file he compiled for a British firm about a potential Russian business partner, the BBC said, citing a Litvinenko associate.
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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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The Kremlin fought back against accusations its secret agents murdered a man in Britain for the first time since the Cold War on Friday, as President Vladimir Putin faced European leaders at a summit in Helsinki.
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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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MOSCOW, June 21 -- The European Court of Human Rights found Thursday that a Chechen woman who had appealed to the court and was subsequently  slain in her home along with three members of her family was "extra-judicially executed by State agents," according to the judgment.
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MOSCOW -- A journalist who chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, garnering awards and accolades from around the world, was found shot to death yesterday in her apartment building. Prosecutors suspect her killing could be connected to her investigative reporting.