Bolshoi Theater artistic director suffers severe burns in acid attackBolshoi Theater Artistic Director Sergei Filin suffered third degree burns to his face and eyes early Friday morning when an unknown assailant attacked him with what is believed to have been concentrated acid.12:30 18.01.2013
Russian top criminal boss killed by sniper in downtown MoscowLaw enforcement officers are looking for a sharpshooter who killed criminal boss Aslan Usoyan in central Moscow on Wednesday.17:52 17.01.2013
Lithuania asks Sweden to investigate teddy bear caseThe Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office decided to ask the Swedish authorities to continue the criminal investigation into the Swedish plane that illegally crossed the border and dropped teddy bears over Belarus.16:30 16.01.2013
Defense Ministry official arrested in embezzlement probeThe Khamovnichesky District Court in Moscow has confirmed that Nikolai Ryabykh, a high-ranking Defense Ministry official, has been arrested for his involvement in the recently infamous Oboronservice defense holding case.11:55 16.01.2013
Russia's Dagestan Supreme Court judge murderedMagomed Magomedov, a judge at Russia's Republic of Dagestan Supreme Court, has been killed in the republic's capital city of Makhachkala.10:10 16.01.2013
Ex-defense minister's refusal to testify might be considered obstruction of justiceInvestigators might consider former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov's refusal to testify as an attempt to hinder the investigation into the case on the embezzlement of the ministry's property.15:06 11.01.2013
UAE women accused of Muslim Brotherhood membership to be interrogatedUAE police have launched an interrogation into a number of women accused of committing crimes against the state, the Emirates News Agency reported Wednesday.18:15 09.01.2013
Investigations intensify against Ukrainian presidential bodyguard accused of espionageThe Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has submitted materials in a criminal case pending against the former bodyguard of ex-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma for further investigation, Melnichenko's attorney Mykola Nedilko told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.12:45 09.01.2013
Investigation into case of Ukrainian ex-president's bodyguard finishedUkrainian authorities have completed an investigation into the criminal case against former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma's bodyguard Mykola Melnichenko, charged with disclosing state secrets.12:46 27.12.2012
Federal authorities vow to find Politkovskaya's murder masterminds in 2013Those who ordered the assassination of a renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be identified in 2013, Petros Garibyan, the chief investigator in the case, said.11:09 27.12.2012
Opposition activist sent away wants back to Moscow courtOpposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev, who has been charged with instigating mass riots across Russia and sent to pretrial detention center in Chelyabinsk, has asked for permission to attend the upcoming appeal hearing in Moscow.18:07 25.12.2012
Tymoshenko to be interrogated in murder caseThe Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office plans to question former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko as part of the investigation into MP Yevgeny Shcherban's murder as soon as her health improves.17:42 19.12.2012
Belgian Prosecutor's Office investigates murder of Patrice LumumbaThe Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office has accepted an application submitted by the widow and sons of former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who has requested an investigation into the involvement of the Belgian military and government officials in his murder in 1961.15:34 13.12.2012
Hearings into Litvinenko case in London to form parameters of main inquiryThe two-day preliminary hearings aimed at finally forming the final parameters of the inquiry into the death of FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko start in London today.12:48 13.12.2012
Suspect in Defense Ministry fraud case enters into plea bargainThe Military Prosecutor's Office announced the conclusion of a pre-trial agreement on cooperation with Yekaterina Smetanova, a suspect in the Oboronservis fraud case.14:02 12.12.2012
Russia to transfer presidential plane crash wreckage to Polish labPolish experts will deliver fragments of the Tu-154 presidential plane from Russia to a Polish laboratory, Zbigniew Rzepa, the press secretary of Poland's Main Military Prosecutor's Office, reported on Tuesday.16:07 04.12.2012
Detained participant in Moscow May riots ready to partially admit guiltAlexandra Dukhanina, the first individual detained in the Moscow May riots case, is prepared to partially admit her guilt, but her case will not be heard under a special procedure.17:52 29.11.2012
Former defense ministry department head appeals house arrestThe defense of Yevgenia Vasilyeva, the former head of the Defense Ministry's Property Relations Department, has submitted an appeal against her house arrest.13:17 26.11.2012
Interior Ministry denies officials investigation in Hermitage embezzlementThe Interior Ministry has no role in the investigation into officials' involvement in the embezzlement of the 5.4 bln rubles ($173.3mln) as part of the Magnitsky case, the ministry's press center reports. The Interior Ministry therefore refutes the information that the Hermitage Capital fund received a notification from the Interior Ministry in regard to this matter.10:28 23.11.2012