MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti) - Three Ukrainian sailors accused of a murder in the Congo will be tried in the African state"s capital of Kinshasa, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian regional court has given a deputy director of a local branch of Russia"s Civil Service Academy a 3 1/2 year suspended sentence for bribery. The court in Vladimir, to the east of Moscow, found Vladimir Starostin, a professor at the Academy"s management department, guilty of receiving a 100,000 ruble ($4,200) bribe in February this year from an applicant for helping him to become a student, local prosecutors said. The judgment comes as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a plan on Thursday to counter Russia"s rampant corruption. The president, a former lawyer, has made the fight against corruption one of his top priorities, signing a decree setting up a presidential anti-corruption council just two weeks after his inauguration.
MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - Alcohol consumption in Russia is more than double the critical level set by the World Health Organization, the interior minister said on Thursday.