The latest: Russia Launches Probe Into St. Petersburg Trinity Cathedral Blaze

26.08.2006
Russia Launches Probe Into St. Petersburg Trinity Cathedral Blaze
Head of a restoration team for Trinity Cathedral, landmark church heavily damaged by a blaze a day earlier, was hospitalized with a heart attack hours after the fire erupted, a St. Petersburg official said Saturday. The damage wreaked by the fire is estimated at over 1.6 million rubles, according to preliminary calculations.

26.08.2006
Security Forces Kill 4 Militants in South Russia Siege
Security forces killed four people in Russia’s southern province of Dagestan, near Chechnya, on Saturday, a day after a top intelligence official said violence was spreading throughout the Northern Caucasus region.

26.08.2006
Former Ukrainian PM Gets 9 Years in U.S. for Fraud
A U.S. court found former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko guilty of fraud, money laundering and extortion and sentenced him to nine years in federal prison. The sentence is half of the maximum sought by prosecutors, who said Lazarenko misused his office in the former Soviet republic to get rich through business schemes.

26.08.2006
Identification of Russia Jet Crash Victims Continues
Authorities on Friday released the remains of dozens of victims of a passenger jet crash that killed all 170 people aboard in the third airline disaster this year in the former Soviet Union.