A seriously ill inmate died after being refused medical treatment in a center of emergency aid in Russia’s Siberian republic of Yakutia, local prosecutors said on Tuesday. The inmate, identified only by his surname Sofronov, was taken to the medical center in Yakutsk in early December, where he was diagnosed with numerous illnesses, including...
Russia is to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from South Sudan, the Kremlin website reported on Tuesday. All Russian soldiers and helicopters should leave the African country by April 1, 2012, a presidential decree published on the website said, adding that the decision was due to the official end of the United Nations Mission in...
The governors of the Russian regions of Murmansk and Tomsk, where the ruling United Russia party showed a poor performance during December’s parliamentary elections, are expected to be dismissed before the March presidential race, the Vedomosti business daily newspaper reported on Tuesday. The governor of the Murmansk region, Dmitry Dmitrienko, has already written a...
Moscow police have detained a Canadian national named Michael Jackson on charges of attempting to steal a wallet from a woman in the capital’s underground, the police reported on its website. The 50-year-old was caught red-handed at an underground station in southeastern Moscow on Monday as he pulled the wallet from the woman’s pocket,...