Suspected serial killer tried in Russia
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A man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of his victims on a chessboard paced back and forth inside a glass cage as a jury was selected Thursday at the start of his murder trial.
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A Russian physicist convicted of spying for China was given a 14-year prison sentence Wednesday in a trial that rights advocates denounced as part of a campaign of intimidation against scholars by Russia's resurgent KGB successor agency.
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Security agents are investigating a Russian scientist for allegedly trying to smuggle out of Russia materials that could be used in building a biological or bacteriological weapon, the scientist and his co-workers said Friday.
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Russian prosecutors launched their own  murder investigation on Thursday into the death in London from  radiation poisoning of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, in  parallel to a British probe already under way.
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Russian killer Alexander Pichushkin is jailed for life for 48 murders which he noted on a chessboard.
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Two Russian intelligence agents convicted by a Qatar court of assassinating a Chechen rebel leader on Thursday arrived back in Russia, where the Kremlin had requested they be allowed to serve out their life sentences.
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The chief suspect in the murder of Russian ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko on Thursday fingered the British secret services for the murder and said they had also tried to recruit him to spy against Russia.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 24 -- A Russian man known as the "Chessboard Killer" because he wanted to commit a murder for each of the 64 squares on the chessboard was convicted Wednesday of killing 48 people, most of them in a Moscow park.
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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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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.
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A Russian grocery store worker accused of killing 49 people allegedly lured his victims to a local park.
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Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian  agent murdered in London last year, was working for British  intelligence, the man charged by Britain with his murder  alleged on Thursday.
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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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German police have uncovered a radioactive trail linked to what prosecutors believe could be a possible suspect in the murder of a former Russian spy in London last month.
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Russia has opened a criminal case in the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, the Prosecutor General's office said Thursday.
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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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Russia will try the chief suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko if Britain supplies sufficient evidence of his guilt, Interfax news agency quoted Russia's chief prosecutor as saying on Friday.