The Lenin district court of Vladivostok handed down a three-year suspended sentence on Thursday to former mayor of the city Yuri Kopylov for abuse of office.

CHKALOVSKY (Moscow Region), December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has received 12 orders from abroad for Mi-28N Night Hunter attack helicopters and is ready to fulfill any contracts, the head of manufacturer Russian Helicopters said on Friday. Andrei Shibitov added

MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow police has detained two men on suspicion of attacking a violinist from a famed Russian orchestra, Russian media reported Friday. A member of the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra, Denis Shulgin, was hospitalized with

CHELYABINSK, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Chelyabinsk ordered the release of a father of nine on Friday who had been sentenced to three months in jail for poaching fish. In May 2006, Alexander Shmunk was caught poaching

MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - DNA taken from defendants accused of involvement in the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya does not match that left at the crime scene by the suspected murderer, a lawyer said on Friday.

MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court sentenced on Friday Alexei Kurtsin, a former manager of the now bankrupt Yukos oil company, to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of abuse of office and embezzling 74

KALININGRAD, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - The customs service in Russia's enclave of Kaliningrad said Friday it regretted the long queues at the region's borders that have occurred since the government raised import duties on used foreign cars and trucks.

Dalsvyaz, the incumbent telecom operator in Russia's Far East, plans to increase its investment program for 2009 by 21.4% to 3.4 billion rubles, company General Director Anton Kolpakov said.