MOSCOW — A Moscow court has prolonged for a further six months the detention of ailing businesswoman Natalya Gulevich, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Gulevich’s lawyer, Andrei Shtanko, told RFE/RL that the Taganka district court’s decision is tantamount to a death sentence for his client. Gulevich, who has been charged with financial fraud, was hospitalized one [...]
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November 30, 2011
October 12, 2011
Investigators probe another pretrial death in Moscow prison
A criminal investigation into the death of an inmate in a Moscow pretrial detention center has been launched, the spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee, Viktoria Tsyplenkova, said on Wednesday. Oleg Golobokov, 46, was held on suspicion of violating copyright laws when he died of an epileptic seizure on Tuesday. “A criminal case has been [...]
October 11, 2011
Probe Launched Into Another Russian Suspect’s Death In Detention
MOSCOW — Russia’s Investigative Committee has begun investigating the death of a teacher in a Moscow pretrial detention center over the weekend, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Andrei Kudoyarov, 48, a teacher in Moscow’s secondary school No 1308, died of an apparent heart attack on October 8. He had been charged with extortion. Investigative Committee spokesman [...]