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Russian sailors captured by pirates off Equatorial Guinea coast released

Russian sailors Alexey Perfilyev, Valentin Nechai, and Vyacheslav Sechin, captured in May by pirates on hijacked vessels Djibloho and Rio Mitong off the coast of Equatorial Guinea and held in the territory of Nigeria since then, were freed.

15:22 06.10.2020

Russia slips in Transparency International's 2014 corruption index

Russia has fallen nine places for the past year to 136th out of 175 countries in Transparency International's 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), a ranking of public sector corruption.

07:01 03.12.2014

London court upholds validity of RUSAL’s purchase of Alscon in Nigeria

The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) has ruled in favor of RUSAL in a lawsuit the company filed against Nigeria on the validity of its purchase of the Alscon plant in that country, RIA Novosti reports citing the company’s statement.

17:28 16.10.2014

Nigerian government refuses to swap schoolgirls for militants - report

The Nigerian government on Monday rejected Boko Haram’s offer to exchange captive schoolgirls for imprisoned militants, Agence France Presse reports.

11:02 13.05.2014

Russia-based Nigerian fraudsters steal $400,000 from French company

Russian police have arrested members of an international organized criminal group from Nigeria that stole over $400,000 from a French company.

13:20 28.11.2013

Russian sailors acquitted of smuggling in Nigeria

A Nigerian court on Tuesday has aquitted seven Russian sailors form the Myre Seadiver crew of arms smuggling charges, the Russian consulate in Nigeria reports.

13:14 08.10.2013

Nigerian students arrested in Moscow embassy violence

Sixteen students from Nigeria studying in Moscow have been arrested for thrashing a conference hall in their country’s embassy in the Russian capital after an apparent dispute over financial aid issues, a Moscow police source said Tuesday.

10:12 01.10.2013

Nigerian court postpones trial of Russian sailors

A Nigerian court postponed until October 8 the trial of the remaining seven of the 15 Russian sailors who were arrested near the West African country’s coast in October 2012 on arms smuggling charges.

15:07 10.07.2013

Moscow to get charges lifted from 15 Russian sailors in Nigeria

Russia considers it a positive development that the 15 Russian sailors held in Nigeria have been released on their own recognizance, and will work to ensure that all charges against them are lifted, the Foreign Ministry's Department of Information and the Press said in a statement.

10:48 26.02.2013

Russian sailors' arms trading case postponed by Nigerian court

The court in Lagos, Nigeria, has postponed the hearing of the application to release 15 Russian crewmen from the cargo ship Myre Seadiver by two weeks, says a representative of the ship's owner, Russia's Moran Security Group.

14:27 29.01.2013

Russian sailors kidnapped by pirates in Nigeria

Six Russian sailors have been kidnapped by pirates off the coast southern Nigeria, the Bourbon shipping company reported on its website on Wednesday.

15:45 18.10.2012