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28.04.2009, 15:12
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Many Russians do not trust the police as they consider servicemen a part of the criminal world, rather than enforcers of the law, says sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky.
02.04.2009, 13:42
An adventurous traffic-cop in western Ukraine has been filming pornographic movies with the aid of police equipment. However, to his regret, his colleagues caught wind of his activities.
01.03.2007, 01:25
An investigation into corruption among the country’s road police had been started by Russia's Prosecutor General's Office. It's alleged some road police officers have even been found selling fake driving licenses.
02.02.2010, 08:48
A group of Moscow policemen subjected their superiors to sharp criticism in an interview published on February 1. The accusations extended to illegal use of crack units for personal protection and fights over property.
02.04.2009, 14:30
Police believe an attack on a prominent human rights activist on Tuesday was done by hooligans. Colleagues of Lev Ponomarev, however, say it was an attempt to scare him off on one of the abuse cases he was investigating.
25.08.2009, 17:31
Two police officers in St Petersburg have been arrested after two teenagers, whom they detained earlier, ended up in hospital. Prosecutors suspect them of using torture on the boys.
11.12.2009, 14:46
Twenty high-ranking officials of the Federal Service for Execution of Sentences have been dismissed following the death of Hermitage Capital Management’s tax adviser Sergey Magnitsky in custody.
29.12.2009, 16:36
Prosecutors have pressed fraud charges against a Russian police officer who accused local law enforcement of corruption and power abuse.
05.04.2010, 14:53
The head of a nursing home in Russia's Far Eastern Republic of Sakha has been charged for putting his elderly clients into a punishment cell and withholding money from their pensions.
14.01.2010, 18:40
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Kiev’s Court of Appeals has found Josef Stalin and other Bolshevik leaders guilty of genocide against the Ukrainians during the famine, or “Holodomor” as it is called in Ukraine, of 1932-33.
Published: 12 June, 2009, 09:27
An intoxicated Russian traffic cop has been fired after being filmed by a woman whom he pulled over. Consumer rights analysts are not surprised: drunkenness and corruption in the police is commonplace, they say.
