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The Russian women"s ice hockey team lost...

The Russian women"s ice hockey team lost a shootout against Switzerland to finish sixth at the Olympics in Vancouver.


A Moscow court sentenced a doctor and her...

A Moscow court sentenced a doctor and her assistant to a six-month conditional prison term after they were found guilty of forgetting a surgical instrument in their patient"s abdomen, a local prosecutor"s office said on its website on Thursday.


MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti) - Two Moscow...

MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti) - Two Moscow police officers have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to extort a 1.5 million euro ($2.3 million) bribe from a bank in the Russian capital, investigators said on Monday. "Two suspects have been taken into custody," said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Prosecutor General"s Office investigation committee. Although the Interior Ministry has not yet officially revealed the identities of the suspects, a law enforcement source said earlier that police majors Dmitry Tselyakov and Alexander Nosenko had attempted to extort 1.5 million euros from Inkredbank vice president Pyots Chuvilin. Chuvilin is also the general director of the Spartak Moscow hockey club. The two officers were detained at the beginning of last week and then formally arrested after a warrant had been issued by Moscow"s Basmanny District Court.

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President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed...

Yury Kalinin, who previously headed the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) for five years, was appointed deputy justice minister in August 2009.

In January, it was announced that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had removed Kalinin from a government commission on crime prevention.

Medvedev has recently dismissed a number of top local and federal FSIN officials after several deaths in Russian pre-trial detention centers sparked a wave of criticism across the country. The situation came to international attention in November with the death of a lawyer representing London-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital.

Putin said while on a visit to France that Sergei Magnitsky"s death in pre-trial detention was "a tragedy" and a top prison official admitted the Federal Penitentiary Service was partly to blame.

Major General Viktor Pogolov was appointed interior minister of the republic of Ingushetia, which saw an upsurge of militant violence lately, with frequent attacks

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