Huge sum stolen from Russia’s 2010 Olympic fund
September 10th, 2012 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian company contracted by the state to provide visa support to Russian athletes for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics stole and laundered $629,000, investigators ... Read more...
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Russian woman throws children from 15th floor
June 25th, 2012 - 5:15 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A woman here killed her two children by throwing them from a balcony of the 15th floor, investigators said."Suspect Galina Ryabkova was questioned and said ... Read more...
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Serial killer faces trial in Moscow
May 23rd, 2012 - 6:57 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian man is set to go on trial accused of killing at least eight women in a series of murders and rapes in various ... Read more...
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Russian woman jailed in failed terror attack
May 19th, 2012 - 1:21 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court has sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison after finding her guilty of attempting to detonate herself on Moscow's central Red Square ... Read more...
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No survivors in Sukhoi crash, Russia opens criminal case (Second Lead)
May 10th, 2012 - 8:15 pm ICT by IANS
Jakarta, May 10 (IANS) Rescuers who Thursday spotted on a mountain slope in Indonesia the wreckage of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 that went missing a day earlier with around 50 ... Read more...
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31 die, 12 survive in Russian plane crash (Second Lead)
April 2nd, 2012 - 5:24 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 2 (IANS) At least 31 people were killed and 12 injured when a Russian passenger plane crashed Monday while trying to make an emergency landing shortly after take-off ... Read more...
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11 survive Russian plane crash (Lead)
April 2nd, 2012 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 2 (IANS) Eleven people were injured and 32 people were killed when their aircraft crashed Monday near a city in Siberia, Russian authorities said.A UTair ATR-72 plane bound ... Read more...
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Russian man goes on stabbing spree in Moscow
December 10th, 2011 - 5:05 pm ICT by BNO News
MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) -- A Russian drug addict went on a stabbing spree in the capital of Moscow on early Friday afternoon, local media reported, killing two people.The attack began at ... Read more...
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44 including 8 foreigners killed in Russian plane crash (Second Lead)
June 21st, 2011 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Forty-four people, including eight foreigners, were killed when a Tu-134 passenger aircraft crashed in Russia's republic of Karelia, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.The ... Read more...
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44 killed in Russia plane crash
June 21st, 2011 - 8:19 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least 44 people were killed when a passenger aircraft crash landed in northern Russia late Monday night, officials said Tuesday.Eight other people were injured ... Read more...
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Russian ex-lawmaker put on Interpol wanted list for fraud
May 19th, 2011 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 19 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Interpol's General Secretariat has officially put former Russian lawmaker Ashot Yegiazaryan on its wanted list over large-scale fraud charges, said a spokesman for Russia's Investigative ... Read more...
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Moscow airport blast aimed at foreigners
January 29th, 2011 - 7:59 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Jan 24 suicide blast in Moscow's Domodedovo airport that killed 35 people was aimed primarily at foreigners, investigators said Saturday."It was no accident that the terrorist ... Read more...
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Russia to prosecute Polish plane crash plunderers
June 8th, 2010 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian investigators Tuesday confirmed that charges had been brought against four servicemen accused of stealing bank cards from a top Polish official who died in the plane ... Read more...
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Experts study Polish president’s plane records
April 11th, 2010 - 3:14 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Experts are studying records of talks between the pilots of the crashed plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and ground air controllers, an official said Sunday.
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Moscow metro bombings kill 35 (Third Lead)
March 29th, 2010 - 2:52 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, March 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least 35 people were killed when two powerful bombs ripped through two Moscow metro stations during rush hour Monday, officials said.
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Russian nightclub explosion kills 102
December 5th, 2009 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
Moscow, Dec. 4 (ANI): A fire and explosion that broke out in a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm during the early hours of Saturday killed over 102 and injured 134. ... Read more...
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Close to 100 dead in fire at Russian club (Lead)
December 5th, 2009 - 11:42 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Dec 5 (DPA) A fire ripped through a club Friday in the Russian city of Perm, killing close to 100 people, according to officials.
Russia's Emergency Ministry said 98 people have been ... Read more...
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Bomb triggers off a Russian train crash
November 29th, 2009 - 8:20 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Uglovka, Nov 29 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A high-speed train was de-railed which was traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It killed at least 26 people, and it was derailed by a powerful homemade ... Read more...
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Eight killed, 54 missing in Russia power plant blast (Lead)
August 17th, 2009 - 11:38 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 17 (RIA Novosti) At least eight people were killed and 54 others missing Monday when an oil transformer at a power station exploded in Russia's southern Siberia, officials said.
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Ingushetia: Attempt Of Terrorism Again
June 22nd, 2009 - 10:56 pm ICT by GD
Thats the picture of President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who was badly hurt in a suicide bomb explosion as he was traveling in his armored Mercedes at 8.30 a.m on June 22nd. ... Read more...
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Police chief goes on shooting spree in Russia, kills three
April 27th, 2009 - 5:47 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 27 (RIA Novosti) A senior police officer shot dead three people and injured six others at a supermarket in southern Moscow in a shooting police said could have been sparked ... Read more...
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Senior Russian military official arrested on embezzlement charges
October 3rd, 2008 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Oct 3 (RIA Novosti) A senior military officer of Russia has been arrested on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office, investigators said Friday.Russian railway troops' deputy commander and chief engineer, ... Read more...
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Two killed in Russia’s Black Sea resort blast
August 7th, 2008 - 7:52 pm ICT by IANS
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Moscow, Aug 7 (Xinhua) Two people were killed and four injured in an explosion on a beach in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi Thursday, Russian news agencies reported. The explosive device ... Read more...
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Human bones identified as belonging to Russian thrones heir and his sister
June 26th, 2008 - 2:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 26 (ANI): Bones found near the execution site of the Romanov family in Russia, have been determined by authorities as belonging to the heir to the Russian throne and ... Read more...
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