- 22:07 17/07/2013
A gang of armed robbers broke into the country home of a prominent Russian scientist, severely beat him and his wife, and fled with some 3.5 million rubles ($110,000) in valuables, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti Wednesday.
- 20:52 17/07/2013
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has barred officials in Florida from releasing their report detailing the cause of death of a 27-year-old Chechen man, Ibragim Todashev, who was shot and killed in his apartment in May by an FBI agent, the medical examiner’s office that conducted the autopsy said in a letter sent to RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
- 15:59 17/07/2013
Russian police reported Wednesday that their Hungarian colleagues have detained in an EU-wide sting operation an alleged mafia kingpin of Georgian origin suspected of murder.
- 14:18 17/07/2013
A car driver involved in a traffic accident in which a motorcyclist died was himself killed at the scene by the biker's friends, local police in Russia’s eastern Primorye Region said Tuesday.
- 14:05 17/07/2013
Russia’s Audit Chamber has exposed financial irregularities totaling 6.7 billion rubles ($205 million) in the North Caucasus republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, the financial controller said on Wednesday.
- 07:35 17/07/2013
Three people were killed and five were injured in a head-on collision in Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg, local Emergencies Ministry department said on Wednesday.
- 23:10 16/07/2013
An Italian man has come to the southern Russian city of Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border, to retrieve his Honda motorcycle which had been stolen in Rome several months ago, police said Tuesday.
- 23:09 16/07/2013
Four men, detained over last week’s attack on a Russian parliament member, face charges of robbery and extortion as part of another criminal case, the Russian Investigative Committee said Tuesday.
- 22:32 16/07/2013
A Pennsylvania man who was found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of his adopted Russian son in 2011 successfully petitioned a judge to expunge part of his record.
- 19:19 16/07/2013
A man in eastern Ukraine shot a passerby in the heart because he was offended by a cigarette butt flung in his direction, local media reported Tuesday.
- 10:57 16/07/2013
Two women in Russia’s Far East got away with suspended jail sentences for their roles in selling 51 girls into sexual slavery in countries as far away as Greece and South Korea, Russian officials said on Tuesday.1
- 22:14 15/07/2013
Four years since human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was abducted and killed in Chechnya, authorities and her colleagues on Monday traded conflicting reports about the inquiry into the unsolved murder.
- 20:12 15/07/2013
Fourteen medical doctors will stand trial on bribery and abuse-of-office charges for helping dozens of young Russian men evade mandatory military service by diagnosing them with stomach ulcers, investigators said Monday.
- 17:32 15/07/2013
A forest ranger in central Russia has confessed to killing a hunter because he thought the man had shot his dog, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
- 17:06 15/07/2013
An army conscript was found guilty on Monday of causing a massive explosion at a military munitions disposal site in Russia's Urals region last year and fined 30,000 ($909), a military court representative told RIA Novosti.
- 14:16 15/07/2013
A man in Russia’s Moscow Region has confessed to stabbing to death his young son in order to take revenge on his ex-wife and mother-in-law, a spokeswoman for the regional investigative committee said Monday.
- 12:41 15/07/2013
Russian police have discovered an underground clothing factory in Moscow Region where dozens of immigrants from Vietnam were being held, together with a bear, ostriches and wild boars, the region’s police department said Monday.
- 10:54 15/07/2013
Russian investigators said Monday they were looking into the death of a TV host and former investigator who helped inquire into the abortive coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
- 07:27 15/07/2013
One militant was killed and another escaped in shootout with policemen in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
