MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) - Four armed men robbed a Moscow lawyer of about 5 million rubles ($150,000) at his country house in the Tver Region in central Russia, a local police spokesman said on Sunday.

The robbery occurred on Saturday when four unidentified men burst into the lawyer's house in the village of Burtsevo in the Kimrsky district of the Tver Region and, threatening the lawyer and his family with arms, stole money and other valuables, the police spokesman said.

An investigation is under way.