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The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs will vote on the Magnitsky List June 7, according to the committee schedule published on Saturday.
Sergei Magnitsky, 37, who worked for law firm Firestone Duncan, acting for Hermitage Capital Management, died in Moscow's notorious Butyrka pre-trial detention center last November. Magnitsky was kept in the cramped 8.2 sq m cell with two others for almost a year and died after being refused essential medical treatment for an embolism.

A federal investigator was injured when his car came under fire in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Investigative Committee said on Saturday.
The Russia-EU summit in St. Petersburg will address the economic crisis in Europe, integration in the post-Soviet area, Syria and Iran, as well as other issues, a presidential aide said on Saturday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes his French counterpart Francois Hollande will soon visit Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied that Russia has any special interests in Syria
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Conditions of imprisonment for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout have been softened and he will be transferred to medium-security prison in Marion, Illinois, his lawyer Albert Dayan said on Friday.
A traffic police officer was killed in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Friday evening, an Investigative Committee representative said.
Russia’s largest state-controlled oil company Rosneft denied having ever given consideration to buying out BP’s 50 percent stake in its TNK-BP joint venture in Russia, Rosneft President Igor Sechin said on Friday.
Russia is not supplying arms to Syria which can be used against protesters, Russian President Vladmir Putin said on Friday.
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Three people, including one child, were killed when a pleasure boat with 10 people on board capsized on the Volga River in Russia’s Saratov region on Friday.
Russia’s richest businessmen Alisher Usmanov has named his new $100-million-yacht after his mother, Dilbar, Russian Izvestia daily reported on Friday.
Tver traffic police officer, Yaroslav Maslov, blocked morning traffic on a busy highway, on May 30, to help a mother duck and her ten ducklings get across, Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid reported Monday.
A regional court in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk has temporarily suspended a case brought by local people, who had complained about noise from air force Su-24 bombers based nearby, until new checks can be made into the sound levels, the court said on Friday.
Two law enforcement officers were killed in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel began talks in Berlin on Friday.
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Doctors working in Kamchatka Peninsula medical establishments on June 1, when the International Children’s Defense Day is celebrated, refused to provide pregnancy termination services, the region’s press service announced.



