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A Russian human rights group today said that gunmen loyal to Chechnya’s pro-Kremlin president had abducted a human rights activist in Moscow and flown him to Chechnya.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a former KGB spy turned basketball tycoon in his car Monday a few hundred metres from the Moscow office of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, officials said. Shabtai von Kalmanovic, who went on to organise a Michael Jackson concert in Moscow and help two clubs win Europe’s top basketball [...]
Russia today rebuffed a fresh appeal to extradite the suspected killer of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. In talks in Moscow, Foreign Secretary David Miliband called for Andrei Lugovoy to be sent to Britain to face trial. Mr Litvinenko, a former agent for the FSB, the successor to the KGB, was poisoned with radioactive Polonium [...]
