Russian central banker killed in contract "hit"
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A Russian central banker who fought to   clean up his country's murky banking system died early on   Thursday from gunshot wounds after being ambushed by assassins   in what police said was a contract 'hit'.
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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 first deputy chairman of Russia's   central bank died in hospital on Thursday after being shot by   gunmen outside a Moscow sports stadium, a senior doctor said.
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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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Alexander V. Litvinenko, who fell gravely ill early this month, apparently after being poisoned, died Thursday night after suffering a heart attack, the authorities said.
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A Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.
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Russian security forces killed an alleged top aide to radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev after he put up armed resistance to arrest, the Federal Security Service said Friday.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, the purported author of modern Russia&#039;s worst terrorist attacks, was killed Monday, the head of the Federal Security Service said.
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A blast rocks a branch of Citibank in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, killing a security guard, reports say.
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A Russian journalist known for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya was shot to death Saturday in the capital, police said.
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A blast has shaken two branches of US-based Citibank in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, reports say. Police say one man, a security guard, was killed in one blast which occurred in the bank in the Caballito district.
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Prosecutors investigating Anna Politkovskaya's murder say her death could be linked to her work.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia  -- A drunken driver collided Monday with a motorcade carrying Chechen President Alu Alkhanov, killing a security officer escorting him and critically injuring four others, authorities said.
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Authorities described the shooting of Andrei Kozlov, a Russian bank regulator, as a contract killing.
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MOSCOW -- Police intercepted a car packed with explosives in central Moscow yesterday and said they had thwarted a terrorist attack, Russian media reported. A suspect told investigators he was being paid $1,000 to take the car to a major thoroughfare used by President Vladimir Putin, news agencies and television said, quoting security forces. The suspect died from a heart ...
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China has executed a former state banker for embezzlement and accepting bribes, state media said on Wednesday, days after a senior Communist Party official was put to death for blowing up his mistress with a car bomb.
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Gunmen shot and seriously wounded the   first deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank and killed his   driver on Wednesday night as they walked out of a Moscow sports   stadium, law enforcement officials said.