A Russian woman has been sentenced to death in China for drug smuggling with the execution delayed for two years, the Russian Embassy in Beijing said. Marina Lopatina, 37, a resident of Khabarovsk in Russia’s Far East, has been found guilty of trying to smuggle two kilograms of heroin from the special administrative region of [...]
Tag: smuggling
November 27, 2011
November 22, 2011
November 22, 2011
Tajik prosecutor asks for release of jailed Russian pilot
A Tajik prosecutor requested on Tuesday the release of the Russian and Estonian pilots sentenced to eight and a half years in jail for smuggling and border violations two weeks ago. The court has adjourned to consider the appeal. Vladimir Sadovnichy and Estonian national Alexei Rudenko were arrested in March and jailed on November 8. [...]
November 22, 2011
November 17, 2011
November 17, 2011
November 17, 2011
Tajikistan Says More Migrant Workers Detained In Russia
DUSHANBE — Tajikistan’s Migration Service says that the detention of Tajik citizens in Russia has increased in the past week amid a row with Moscow over the sentencing of two ethnic Russians for smuggling and other crimes, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports. Safiallo Devonaev, the head of the state Migration Service, said on November 15 in [...]
November 16, 2011
November 16, 2011
November 15, 2011
Russia deports 300 Tajik workers after jailing of pilot
Russia has deported at least 300 Tajik migrant workers following the jailing of a Russian pilot in the Central Asian republic, a migrant movement leader said on Tuesday. Russian pilot Vladimir Sadovnichy and his Estonian colleague were sentenced to 8.5 years in jail in Tajikistan for smuggling and border violations on November 8. Moscow said [...]
November 12, 2011
November 11, 2011
Tajikistan denies migrant workers being deported from Russia
Tajikistan’s Migration Service denied reports that Russia is deporting Tajik migrant workers and warned against politicizing “natural socioeconomic problems.” The conviction of a Russian pilot in a Tajik court on Tuesday on smuggling and border violation charges sparked a diplomatic row between Russia and Tajikistan. Russia responded with a threat to deport 100 Tajik migrant [...]