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Police Uproot Russia Protest Camp

AP | Posted 05.16.2012

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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police dispersed a protest camp in central Moscow that had become a rallying point...

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LOOK: Moscow Police Arrest 55 In Protests

AP | MIKHAIL METZEL | Posted 04.01.2012

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MOSCOW -- Police detained about 55 protesters on Sunday outside the gates to Red Square, which was unexpectedly closed to all visitors and tourists to...

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Russian Police Charged With Torture In Deadly Rape, Death Of Detainee

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 05.29.2012

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MOSCOW — Russia's top investigative agency filed new charges Thursday against police officers accused of torturing detainees amid growing public...

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Russian Police Chief Fired After Boy Was Beaten To Death

AP | Posted 02.10.2012

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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Russia's president has fired the police chief of St. Petersburg, where a 15-year-old boy died after being beaten while in po...

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Russian Police Find 29 Mummified Bodies In Historian's Home

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 01.07.2012

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MOSCOW — The Russian historian had always been open about his interest in the dead and eagerly described how he loved to rummage through cemeter...

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Russian Police Officer Shoots Man Who Won't Give Up Subway Seat For Elderly

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Russian policeman has shot and wounded two passengers during rush hour on the Moscow metro after a row about giving up a seat for a pensioner, the i...

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Russian Drivers Used As 'Human Shields' By Police

Posted 05.25.2011

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Moscow's police chief has been forced to apologize after allegations that motorists were ordered to move their vehicles into the path of a speeding ge...

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Alexey Dymovsky, Russian YouTube Police Whistle Blower, Charged With Fraud

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — Russian prosecutors are filing fraud charges against a police officer who had complained on YouTube of abuse and corruption in the law ...

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Russia's Whistleblower Cop Becomes Youtube Sensation

GlobalPost | Miriam Elder | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW, Russia -- Alexei Dymovsky sits in full uniform and stares at the camera with tired eyes....

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Natalia Estemirova Killing The Latest In Attacks On Russian Activists

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Award-winning Russian rights activist Natalya Estemirova has been found dead hours after being kidnapped in Chechnya, reports Human Rights Watch. Es...

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Russian Police Stage Murder To Catch Plotters

Times Online | Tony Halpin | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a scheme that could have been taken from a Hitchcock thriller, detectives arranged for Kermen Basangova, the head of a civil service academy in St ...

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Russia Police Conduct Reforms Outlaw 'Indiscriminate Sex', 'Wicked Irony'

Time | Posted 05.25.2011

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Police in Russia have long had a reputation for three things: bribery, cruelty and ineptitude. Now the government is determined to change that image b...

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Russian Police Free Hostages, Kill Gunman

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — Russian security forces killed a masked gunman who seized five hostages at a Siberian bank Friday and the captives escaped unharmed, of...

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