More than 320,000 police officers and 11,500 servicemen are to maintain security during the State Duma polls, which began at 20:00 p.m. GMT in Russia. As of 3:00 Moscow time [23:00 GMT Saturday] the vote is underway in four Russian time zones, which cover a vast part of Siberia and all Far East. “All polling [...]
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December 4, 2011
December 2, 2011
Woman frightens police with ‘cake bomb’
A female Muscovite has been detained and admitted to a psychiatric clinic after arriving at the Russian Interior Ministry’s Criminology Center with a cake box that she claimed contained a bomb, a police source said. The incident took place on Thursday evening. A sapper team called in to inspect the suspicious box stated that the [...]
November 9, 2011
Russian NGO Registers 1,000 Election Campaign Violations
Less than a month before the December 4 elections to the Russian State Duma, the Moscow-based NGO Golos (Vote) says it has registered more than 1,000 violations of election-related laws, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Golos Executive Director Lidiya Shibanova said in a press release on November 8 that violations have been reported in 72 of [...]
October 29, 2011
Russian Interior Ministry sues initiator of Saratov’s car accident with children deaths
Russian Interior Ministry has sued a driver, an alleged initiator of a car accident in Saratov which led to two children’s death, the ministry said on Saturday. Two 12-year old girls died and 14 children aged 8 to 12 years injured after car accident with four cars in Russia’s Volga region on Saturday’s afternoon. An [...]
October 22, 2011
Medvedev to discuss law enforcement reform with police in Tver
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss the reformation of the country’s Interior Ministry with police officers in the city of Tver later on Saturday. Medvedev announced his plans during a video linkup with coordinators of the United Russia party’s regional election campaign on Friday. Medvedev launched a large-scale reform of the Russian Interior Ministry in [...]
October 14, 2011
CIS interior ministers agree to fight cyber crimes
The Commonwealth of Independent States interior ministers have agreed on a draft strategy for fighting cyber crime, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Friday. “These sorts of crimes tend to be international, which is why we should work together to fight them,” Nurgaliyev said after a meeting of the Council of CIS Interior Ministers [...]
September 28, 2011
Arm-wrestling champ detained on murder charges after 20 years on run
A former arm wrestling world champion has been detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after more than 20 years on the run from murder charges, investigators said on Wednesday. Jambul Vibliani, 41, who was expelled to Russia from the United States after his visa expired, was detained in the airport’s customs zone, the Russian Interior Ministry’s [...]
September 28, 2011
Magnitsky’s Mother Files Criminal Complaint Against Russian Officials
The mother of Sergei Magnitsky has filed a criminal complaint against Russian Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika, senior officials of the Russian Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service, the Penitentiary Service, and 11 judges, accusing them of being involved in a conspiracy to murder her son. Magnitsky, an attorney who was jailed after accusing Interior Ministry officials [...]