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Duma committee drafts bill on cutting abortion rate

15:17 22/04/2011

Legislators in Russia's lower house of parliament have prepared a draft law that they hope will reduce the more than 1 million abortions performed in the country each year, a senior lawmaker said on Friday.

Son of Kaspersky Labs' founder said missing in Moscow
21:22 21/04/2011
Russian police are looking into reports that the son of software tycoon Yevgeny Kaspersky was kidnapped in Moscow, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
Russia's top prosecutor says crime figures fiddled on vast scale
19:44 21/04/2011
A probe last year into the authenticity of Russia's crime statistics found "mass falsification" of figures across the country, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika says in a report made public on Thursday.
Hermitage claims against Russian official prompt Swiss probe
16:11 21/04/2011
Switzerland has opened a money-laundering probe against a former Russian tax official at the request of British investment company Hermitage Capital Management Ltd., the Barron's weekly said on Thursday.
Russia not a transit country for drug trafficking into Europe - anti-narcotics chief
23:15 20/04/2011
European police do not have any statistics that Russia is used as a transit country for drug trafficking, Russia's anti-narcotics chief, Viktor Ivanov, said on Wednesday.1
Ukraine's Tymoshenko, former Naftogaz head questioned by prosecutors
18:37 20/04/2011
Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Oleg Dubina, the former head of Ukraine's state-run gas company Naftogaz were jointly questioned on Wednesday as part of a criminal investigation related to the signing of a gas contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom in 2009.
Russian parliament approves big jump in fines for bribes
13:38 19/04/2011
The lower house of the Russian parliament on Tuesday approved a bill increasing fines for bribes by up to 100 times the amount of the bribe given or accepted.
Moscow woman gets 14 years for murdering baby granddaughter
22:47 18/04/2011
A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a women to 14 years in a penal colony for the brutal murder of her two-month-old granddaughter.
One killed, 3 injured as suicide bomber attacks Afghan Defense Ministry
13:06 18/04/2011
One person was killed and at least three others injured when a suicide bomber dressed in a military uniform detonated his explosive device inside the Afghan Defense Ministry building in Kabul on Monday, a ministry press service official said.
Charges dropped against Russian cosmetics retailer
11:32 18/04/2011
Criminal charges have been dropped against the former owner of Russian cosmetics retailer Arbat Prestige, his lawyer said on Monday.
Guinean Embassy in Moscow robbed of over $90,000 cash
08:46 18/04/2011
The office of the ambassador of Equatorial Guinea in Moscow was robbed of $86,000 and 2,000 euros during a break-in over the weekend, a police source told RIA Novosti on Monday.
'Underground town' full of illegal migrants uncovered in Moscow
05:42 14/04/2011
Moscow police have uncovered an "underground town" housing more than 100 illegal migrants from Central Asia in the capital's east, a Moscow criminal police officer said on Thursday.
Mosque head shot as attacks on Dagestan’s religious figures continue
10:43 09/04/2011
The murder early on Saturday of an imam in Dagestan is the latest in a series of deadly attacks on religious figures in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus republic.
Russian politician attacks voter who congratulated him on poll win
08:53 09/04/2011
A local politician in Russia’s Volga republic of Udmurtia is facing assault charges after drunkenly attacking a voter who congratulated him on his election to the local government.1
Child violence priority for NGOs - Medvedev
15:13 08/04/2011
The prevention of violence against children should be one of the top priorities for Russian non-governmental organizations, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
Moscow court sanctions arrest of man detained with bomb
22:13 07/04/2011
A Moscow court authorized on Thursday the month-long arrest of a man detained earlier in the day when he was pulled over on one of the Russian capital's main arterial roads and found to have a bomb in his car.
At least 10 children killed in Rio de Janeiro school shooting
19:52 07/04/2011
At least 10 children were killed and 17 other people wounded when an unknown gunman opened fire at a school in western Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, Brazilian healthcare authorities said.
Moscow police link man found with bomb to Dagestan militant gang
18:39 07/04/2011
A man detained on Thursday in central Moscow with an explosive device in his car is a member of a militant gang operating in Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a Moscow police spokesman said.
Russia hands over new declassified Katyn massacre files to Poland
15:35 07/04/2011
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office handed over to Poland on Thursday 11 volumes of declassified documents related to the massacre of over 20,000 Polish prisoners of war in Western Russia in 1940, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said.
Embattled Bank of Moscow head 'not on wanted list'
14:53 06/04/2011
There has been no formal request to put Bank of Moscow President Andrei Borodin on an international wanted list, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.

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