Russia jails killers of African
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Russia's first race hate murder trial ends in long jail terms for three men who killed an African medical student.
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Moscow police arrested two Chechen men in connection with the murder of US journalist Paul Klebnikov, the Moscow Times reported Wednesday.
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More and more Russians believe their country is for whites only, and that's leading to deadly violence
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Hate crimes in Russia have killed 17 people and injured more than 50 others since the beginning of the year, the Russian human rights group Sova said on Friday.
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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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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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A Russian court jails a man for 16 years for stabbing worshippers at a Moscow synagogue in January.
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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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Rwanda on Monday released 8,000 prisoners accused of involvement in the country's 1994 genocide, prompting anger from survivors of the slaughter who fear new ethnic killings.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea A court convicted dozens of alleged mercenaries from South Africa and Armenia on Friday and sentenced them to prison terms for an alleged coup plot.
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Hate crimes in Russia have grown increasingly brutal and deadly but authorities do little to combat xenophobia, one of the country's leading rights groups said Tuesday.
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Security forces raided a Moscow jail and freed the warden and 14 employees several hours after they were seized Monday by inmates wearing guards' uniforms and armed with metal rods, Russian authorities said.
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A Russian court sentenced four men to between 14 months and 2 1/2 years in prison after they confessed to being members of the banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, news agencies reported Thursday.
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BESLAN, Russia  - A Russian court granted an amnesty to three policemen who were charged with negligence for failing to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre, in which 331 people died.
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Stiff prison sentences handed down to three Russian men convicted of extorting money from overseas gambling sites may indicate that authorities there are changing their previously lenient outlook on such crimes.
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An Armenian and South African were convicted by a federal jury on Tuesday of agreeing to smuggle Russian military arms into the United States including rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, Libya's foreign minister said yesterday .