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MOSCOW, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - A chief inspector...

MOSCOW, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - A chief inspector at Moscow"s financial watchdog has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Thursday.Sergei Smirnov, the chief inspector at the Federal Financial and Budget Monitoring Service (Rosfinnadzor), was detained on June 3. He is accused of extorting 500,000 rubles ($21,000) from a Moscow businessman after discovering a financial irregularity during an audit. The financial breach would normally result in a fine of up to 60 million rubles ($2.5 million) for the offending company.


Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on...

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Monday that road construction, ship-building and engineering were priority areas for cooperation between Croatia and Russia.


MOSCOW, April 2 (RIA Novosti) - The World...

MOSCOW, April 2 (RIA Novosti) - The World Wildlife Fund called on people around the world on Thursday to sign a petition to try and save the last surviving gray whales threatened with extinction as a result of oil and gas projects in Russia's Far East.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed...

Redundancies could be balanced with higher salaries for those police officers who will survive the reform, according to the president.

In a live interview aired by three federal television channels earlier on Thursday, the president, who recently dismissed a number of regional penitentiary officials, also demanded order in the system which he said had "substantial drawbacks."

British hedge fund Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was awaiting trial on tax evasion charges, died in November after 11 months behind bars in Moscow.

Medvedev fired Major General Anatoly Mikhalkin, head of the tax crimes department in the Interior Ministry"s Moscow branch, on suspicion of his being responsible for Magnitsky"s death, and ordered a probe into the incident.

MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti)



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