The head of the St. Petersburg police was sacked following an investigation into the beating death of a 15-year-old boy while in custody, amid an ugly power struggle that came to head at the annual meeting of police brass with President Dmitry...

A 15-year-old boy caught stealing a woman's purse died early Sunday after being viciously beaten by a St. Petersburg police officer. A 15-year-old boy caught stealing a woman's purse died early Sunday after being viciously beaten by a St. Petersburg police officer, Interfax reported. The teenager was seen by police robbing a 45-year-old woman in the Nevsky Region...

A 15-year-old boy caught stealing a woman's purse died after being viciously beaten by a St. Petersburg police officer, Interfax reported Monday. Police officers spotted the teenager robbing a 45-year-old woman in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg early Sunday morning, Itar-Tass reported. The police pursued the suspect and "applied physical force"...

Participants in a race in the Kaliningrad region town of Sovietsk were detained by police who had been led to believe that the runners were gay activists, Interfax reported. Police stopped the group of athletes, which included schoolchildren and their parents, during a weekend race to promote healthy living habits after receiving an...

President Dimitry Medvedev fired St. Petersburg police chief Mikhail Sukhodolsky from his post Friday after the colonel-general failed to attend an important Interior Ministry meeting because of unspecified health reasons, Interfax reported. President Dimitry Medvedev fired St. Petersburg police chief...

Police in the Khabarovsk region have seized nine tons of critically endangered sturgeon bound for markets across Russia. Police in the Khabarovsk region have seized nine tons of critically endangered sturgeon bound for markets across...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan is prosecuting four senior police officers for using excessive force against rioters in an oil town, where 17 people were killed in some of the country's worst violence in decades. A regional deputy police head who coordinated the action in Zhanaozen is being sued for dereliction...

South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva was hospitalized in a coma late Thursday after suffering an apparent stroke during a raid on her home a day before she planned to declare herself president of the breakaway Georgian region. South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva remained in critical condition Friday, a day after suffering an apparent stroke during a raid on her home. A doctor at the hospital where Dzhioyeva is in intensive care said the...

Moscow police have detained two Yabloko party officials after a protest rally against election fraud. Moscow police have detained two Yabloko party officials after a protest rally against election fraud. The Saturday rally was sanctioned for 300 participants...

... first leaked the story of the death of 15-year-old Nikita Leontyev from St. Petersburg a day after it happened on Jan. 21. According to initial accounts, three policemen witnessed a pair of teenagers robbing a woman and kicking her in the head. The police reportedly intervened and detained one of the teenagers, Leontyev. According to official reports, the policemen did not lay a finger on the suspect, who allegedly was a drug addict and died in detention as the result of a seizure. But soon after...

Kazakhstan is prosecuting four senior police officers for using excessive force against rioters in an oil town where 17 people were killed in some of the country's worst violence in decades. ALMATY — Kazakhstan is prosecuting four senior police officers for...

A federal anti-extremism police division asked popular blogger and photographer Ilya Varlamov for information regarding photographers suspected of infiltrating military facilities. A federal anti-extremism police division asked popular blogger and photographer Ilya Varlamov...

... masked robbers armed with what appeared to be a pistol, held up a Moscow post office branch Monday morning and made off with 2.5 million rubles ($83,000), in the second successful robbery of a city post office since Friday, Interfax reported. Moscow police said Sunday that they had detained a suspect in the holdup of another post office branch late last week in which more than 7 million rubles worth of pension funds was taken, RIA-Novosti reported. Retirees often collect pension payments from their...

... 2002, Noviye Izvestia reported Thursday, citing City Hall's social protection department. Meanwhile, volunteers complained to city authorities at a round table this week of multiple problems in helping the homeless, including resistance from local police, financial shortfalls, excessive bureaucracy and the lack of resocialization programs. On Thursday, representatives from City Hall, the Moscow police, the regional migration service, the children's ombudsman in Moscow and volunteer services gathered...

Police are searching for two men who, in under a minute, robbed a Russian Post branch of 7.3 million rubles ($240,000). Police are searching for two men who, in under a minute, robbed a Russian Post branch of 7.3 million rubles ($240,000), cash that...

... selling firearms similar in form and size to pens. A 37-year-old former army officer and his 36-year-old accomplice handcrafted the miniature guns and sold them, initially, to acquaintances in their village of Vozzhayevka, Far East Federal District police said in a statement Tuesday. The pair then sought customers farther afield, traveling to the neighboring Khabarovsk region to find interested buyers. Far East district police, hearing of the scheme, sought them out and made undercover purchases...

... from Tajikistan whose party and publications angered Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon was stabbed in Moscow. An exiled opposition leader from Tajikistan whose party and publications angered Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon was stabbed in Moscow, police and associates said. Dodojon Atovulloyev was attacked late Thursday near the Italian restaurant Viaggio on Komsomolsky Prospekt in central Moscow, and he was hospitalized with two knife wounds in the stomach, police and news reports said. Atovulloyev's...

Investigators have uncovered a counterfeit drug factory, along with 20 million rubles ($670,000) worth of bogus pills, at the dacha of a former first deputy head of the Moscow metro police. Investigators have uncovered a counterfeit drug factory, along with 20 million rubles ($670,000) worth of bogus pills, at the dacha of a former first deputy head of the Moscow metro police. The plant, whose discovery was announced Wednesday...

Investigators in the Urals Federal District said Thursday that they had filed extremism charges against the editor of an independent local newspaper after he published articles critical of the police. Investigators in the Urals Federal District said Thursday that they had filed extremism charges against the editor of an independent local newspaper after he published articles critical of the police. A criminal case was opened in the city of...

Investigators have brought new charges against businessman Viktor Baturin, accusing him of fraud totaling 5.6 billion rubles ($186 million), police said. “Today the Main Investigative Directorate of the Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for Moscow charged Baturin … with committing a crime under Article 30 (attempted crime) and Article 159 (massive fraud) of the Russian...