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Two Russians use hand grenade to ‘pay’ for beer

18:17 16/01/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, January 16 (RIA Novosti)

Police detained two men in St. Petersburg on suspicion of robbing beer from a shop by threatening the shop assistant with a hand grenade, a city police spokesman said on Monday.

Amur pedophile saved from lynching, sent to jail
16:39 16/01/2012
Alexei Zhitsky, whom police had to rescue from an angry crowd, was found guilty of murder, sexual assault and rape and sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday, investigators said.
Russian anti-monopoly official wounded in shooting
12:14 16/01/2012
The head of a regional anti-monopoly department in central Russia has been seriously wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen, a police source said on Monday.
Tajik police seize 45 kg of Russia-bound heroin
11:21 16/01/2012
Police have seized some 44 kilograms of heroin that was due to be smuggled into Russia during a raid in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, a drug control agency spokeswoman said on Monday.
Russian pensioner tricked into buying ‘medicine’ for $10,000
09:09 16/01/2012
A pensioner in Moscow was fooled into purchasing “medicine” for $10,000 at the weekend, a police source told RIA Novosti on Monday.

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A brawl broke out in the Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday ahead of the consideration of a bill designed to expand the use of Russian language in the country, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

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