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Siberian Mayor Charged In Lawmaker's Murder


(RFE/RL) March 6, 2007 -- Prosecutors in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast have charged a mayor and his deputy with masterminding the murder of a local legislator.


Prosecutors allege that Slyudyansky Raion Mayor Vasily Saikov and his deputy, Khasan Ramazanov, ordered the murder of lawmaker Aleksandr Babuchenko in March 2005.


Saikov and Ramazanov were detained on February 26 and remain in custody in Irkutsk.


(ITAR-TASS, Interfax)

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