Moscow"s leading cultural figures signed...

The letter comes as Medvedev launched an overall reform of the Interior Ministry, trimming police numbers and raising salaries in an effort to reduce corruption.

The crash caused the deaths of a well-known gynecologist, Vera Sidelnikova, and her daughter-in-law, Olga Alexandrina, also a doctor.

The accident occurred on February 25 on Moscow"s Leninsky Prospekt when the chauffeur-driven Mercedes of a vice-president of Russia"s largest independent oil company, LUKoil, collided with the small Citroen driven by Alexandrina.

The LUKoil executive, Anatoly Barkov, was hospitalized with minor injuries, while his driver, Vladimir Kartayev, refused medical treatment.

The letter, written by novelist and outspoken feminist Maria Arbatova, accused police of being biased and hushing up the details of the investigation.

"The information which has come from police to the press is a mockery of the doctors" memory. At first, police said that the late Olga Alexandrina

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