Russian Who Murdered Chechen No Longer Seeks Pardon
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A Russian colonel convicted of murdering a Chechen woman has withdrawn his request for a pardon, sparing President Vladimir Putin the uncomfortable choice of offending either the volatile region or his military.
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Suspect in murder of Russian dissident says former spy's death was caused by 'reckless way of life'
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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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DOHA, Qatar Two Russian intelligence agents jailed for life in Qatar for killing a Chechen rebel leader will be sent back to Russia to serve out their sentences, the state news agency QNA reported on Thursday.
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A Russian Army officer jailed for the murder of a young Chechen woman withdrew his appeal for a presidential pardon Tuesday, according to Interfax, which quoted officials in the city where the officer was detained.
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An initiative from the former top military commander in the Northern Caucasus, Ulyanovskâs regional governor Vladimir Shamanov, to pardon Yuri Budanov, the convicted of murderer of a Chechen woman, has driven President Putin into an ideological and
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The fate of an army colonel convicted of murdering a Chechen woman will be decided by President Vladimir Putin following a Russian governor's decision to support pardoning the officer, Russian media reported Monday.
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A woman sentenced to death for killing a police official who tried to rape her has been pardoned by the victim's family, a judiciary official said Wednesday, a welcome resolution to a 7-year-old case that had garnered intense interest at home and abroad.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 31 -- A former police officer was sentenced to death and nine other men, including a senior civil servant, were given long prison sentences Thursday for the murders of a leading opposition politician in Kazakhstan and two of his employees.
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Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov says another militant chief, Shamil Basayev, should go on trial for the school siege in the southern Russian city of Beslan that killed nearly 340 people, according to a statement released Friday.
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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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VANCOUVER (CP) - The family of a man believed killed by Russian forces in Chechnya are hoping his bloodstained wallet will finally provide evidence of his fate.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday found the Russian authorities responsible for the killings of four members of a Chechen family in 2003 and ordered Moscow to pay a relative $114,000.
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The man accused of plotting the terror attacks in Russia was once capable of restraint.
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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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Russia said on Friday it would hold a  retrial next week of two Chechens accused of murdering U.S.  journalist Paul Klebnikov, but a lawyer for one defendant said  police were still trying to find the man.
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MOSCOW (BBC News) - A court here has sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", to life imprisonment. The Russian shop assistant was found guilty of 48 murders, which he once said he recorded on a chessboard. Most of the murders were committed over five years in Bittsa Park, in Moscow's southern suburbs.  Pichushkin has never denied the charges. He was also found guilty on three counts of attempted murder. Pichushkin began his 14-year killing spree in Moscow in 1992, and was arrested in June 2006. His victims were drowned in a sewer or bludgeoned to death with a hammer, investigators say. Pichushkin originally said he planned to carry out 64 killings, one for each square on a chessboard.