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20.08.2009, 10:35
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From the sexually extravagant Caligula to brutal defender of the French Revolution Robespierre to reformer-dictator Pinochet.
22.10.2009, 17:37
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Love makes you lose your head, and when you are rich and powerful you sometimes find really extravagant ways to show how strong your feelings are – starting from Wonders of the World and finishing with your own ear.
19.07.2010, 19:09
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Police in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region have found the donkey that a leisure firm launched into the sky in a parasailing advertising stunt on July 15 and identified its owner.
16.02.2010, 15:41
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Last Christmas an Estonian robbed a bank in the Finnish city of Turku because he had intended to wait out the hard times in a comfortable prison, informs Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat.
05.11.2009, 18:54
Escape from high security prison has always been a top-choice plot for writers and filmmakers, but some of the most fantastic stories of escape have actually taken place.
05.04.2010, 16:48
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A Latvian man has managed to steal a mobile phone right in the prosecutor’s office where he was being held for charges pressed against him.
03.08.2009, 14:14
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Belarus’ customs have caught an unlucky smuggler, who tried to cross the border from Ukraine wearing 16 pairs of briefs.
20.08.2010, 13:15
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Latvian media speculate that the growing number of cyclists fined for riding drunk comes from a scam where policemen allow busted car drivers be documented as cyclists for a bribe.
30.03.2009, 13:15
A Chechen who was a former leading commander of a crack Russian anti-terrorist battalion has been assassinated at the luxury Jumeirah Beach Resort in Dubai where he lived.
10.01.2010, 14:33
Readers of one Polish website dedicated to police affairs have drawn up a list of the most ridiculous felonies of 2009, RIA Novosti reports.
Published: 08 October, 2009, 15:47
From dangerous crimes to the absolutely petty, the innocent and the guilty, here they are; the top 10 most publicized and politicized prisoners.
Actually most of the key Bolshevik leaders were political prisoners were sent to Siberian prison not just Lenin but Stalin, Trotsky and Bela Kun who western governments and foreign organisations lobbied and complained to Tsarist Russia for there release who were exiled and given sanctuary in Europe and the US who sent them back with millions of dollars to direct the so called “revolution” and we know how that turned out. Surprised you did not mention Hitler and Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali).