... RIA-Novosti reported. Mrykhin's trial on charges of offering services in violation of safety laws resulting in death carried a maximum sentence of 10 years. He fled Russia shortly after the nightclub incident and was hiding in Spain until his arrest and extradition to Russia in June 2011. This is the first sentence of eight people charged in connection with the fire, including pyrotechnics experts, regional fire inspectors, and club owners and managers. Only club co-owner Anatoly Zak remains in custody...

... paintings, owned by the tycoon and former Kremlin kingmaker. At the time, Berezovsky denied ownership of the yachts. And in 2007, French authorities seized a $20 million villa from Berezovsky at Russia's asking. Russia has unsuccessfully sought Berezovsky's extradition from Britain on a variety of charges, including embezzlement of millions of dollars from state-owned airline Aeroflot and automaker AvtoVAZ. 179742

... Andrei Borodin were frozen by local law enforcement authorities. Swiss bank accounts belonging to former head of Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin were frozen by local law enforcement authorities, state media reported Saturday. Russia is seeking the extradition of Borodin on a series of criminal charges. The banker left the country shortly after state-owned VTB's hostile takeover of Bank of Moscow in April last year. In a statement, Borodin said the move was just one in a series of efforts to put...

... problems. At least four major criminal charges of theft and embezzlement have been filed against Borodin by the Investigative Committee. In March, the Prosecutor General’s Office sent an official request to the British government asking for his extradition. Borodin is not the only banker to have recently caused a headache for London. On March 20, Russian banker German Gorbuntsev was shot six times in an attempted assassination. In an interview from his hospital bed published Sunday, Gorbuntsev...

... interview in the RBCC's Moscow offices. Diplomatic ties between Britain and Russia have been strained for years, but they reached a nadir after the 2006 polonium poisoning in London of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko and the Kremlin's refusal to extradite the main suspect in the case. While Thompson said political tension between Britain and Russia could have had some negative consequences for the work of RBCC, he highlighted the opportunities available for British businesses from "blinding"...

... Olympic-related talks in the White House, the British Embassy said. London has sought to improve ties with Moscow, long frayed by the poisoning death of former Federal Security Service officer Alexander Litvinenko in London and demands from both sides to extradite suspects from Moscow and self-exiled Kremlin critics from Britain. The talks on Syria went relatively smoothly, with Lavrov hinting that Moscow could increase pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to abide by the peace plan forwarded by...