Top Russian central banker killed in contract "hit"
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A top Russian central banker who led an   aggressive drive to clean up Russia's murky banking system died   early on Thursday after being ambushed by gunmen in what law   enforcement officials said was a contract 'hit'.
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A Jordanian who commanded foreign mercenaries in Chechnya and was reportedly al-Qaida's top emissary in the troubled North Caucasus died Sunday in a shootout with police, security officials said.
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A deputy chairman of Russia's central bank was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in the Russian capital on Wednesday, officials said.
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Murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed because of an eight-page dossier he had compiled on a powerful Russian figure for a British company, a business associate told the BBC on Saturday.
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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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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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A Georgian tycoon who claimed he was the target of assassination plot after helping lead anti-government protests in his homeland was found dead in his mansion near London, and police said Wednesday they were treating the death as suspicious.
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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 charges opened a new line of legal attack against a Kremlin foe who was once regarded as Russiaâs richest man.
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LONDON, July 18 -- Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian billionaire and one of the most vocal critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Wednesday that police in London last month arrested and deported a hit man sent from Russia to kill him.
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The head of an organization of former  Russian spies was quoted as saying on Thursday Stalin-era  policies of Moscow assassinating enemies had ceased, and ex-KGB  agent Alexander Litvinenko was probably murdered by criminals.
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Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday allegedly acting on a tip from within his network and dealing a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Islam-inspired insurgency throughout southern Russia.
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Who was behind ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko's highly public demise?
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who had been fighting for his life in recent days after an apparent poisoning, has died, the hospital where he was being treated said.
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Business & money: Â· Former Rusneft chief says Kremlin bullied him outÂ· Warrant issued days after mysterious death of son
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The chief engineer at a Siberian subsidiary of oil company BP's Russian joint venture was found shot dead over the weekend, the RIA Novosti agency reported Monday.
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The prosecutor of Russia's Volga region of Saratov was killed overnight and police believe his murder could be linked to his anti-corruption drive, Russian media reported on Thursday.