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Russia’s ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
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"Bitsyevskiy maniac" charged · 2006-12-18 11:42
Alexander Pichushkin, suspected of being the “Bitsyevskiy maniac”, has been charged with 49 murders. He got his nickname after after the Bitsyevskiy park where 14 of the victims’ bodies were found.
He has allegedly confessed to killing 62 people over six years. Pichushkin said he planned to kill 64 people to correspond with the squares on a chess board and reportedly he regreted he had missed his goal.
Prosecutors say they only have evidence to pursue 49 cases. Alexander Kshevitsky, the head of the Russian interior ministry’s criminal investigation department, told Mosnews: “Mr Pichushkin was yet to undergo psychiatric tests to see whether he was fit to stand trial.”
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