Russia hands over fisherman's body after shooting
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Russia on Saturday handed over the body  of a Japanese fisherman killed when one of its patrol boats  shot at a crabbing vessel in disputed waters between the two  countries, the Japanese foreign ministry said.
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Russian police claimed yesterday that one of the country&#39;s most brutal and enigmatic contract killings - the drive-by shooting of the American journalist Paul Klebnikov in July - had
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Gunmen shoot dead a top regional official in Cherkessk, in Russia's troubled North Caucasus.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Flags flew at half-mast across  Russia on Monday at the start of national mourning for 338  people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while  questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin's policies.
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British police are treating the death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder, they confirm.
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British police said on Wednesday they were now treating the death of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder.
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Authorities described the shooting of Andrei Kozlov, who had tried to combat money laundering, as a contract killing.
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After the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, a look at the Russian law that permits some killings overseas.
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Russia on Monday cleared the way for  British detectives probing the mystery poisoning of former KGB  spy Alexander Litvinenko to visit Moscow, and promised to help  their investigation.
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Russian authorities are investigating the recent killing of a model-turned-bodyguard.
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The first funerals for the victims of the Russian school siege are due to be held. Survivors of the atrocity are still recovering in hospitals in and around the town of Beslan.
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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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Russia dismissed speculation on  Wednesday it could hand over the man suspected of murdering  Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in exchange for Britain  extraditing a tycoon wanted in Moscow.
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BESLAN, Russia - Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the spasm of violence that ended the school siege here, and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals who had rushed to the scene.    As Beslan buried more victims Friday, a week after the bloodbath at School No...
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Rescue services brought hundreds of fishermen to safety Saturday after they were stranded on ice floes that had broken away from the coast in Russia's Far East, emergency officials said.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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A top-ranking regional police officer and three bodyguards were gunned down in southern Russia late Wednesday, police said. The assassination was the latest attack in the troubled region bordering war-wracked Chechnya.