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Senior Diplomat Arrested

A senior Foreign Ministry official was placed under arrest Wednesday on suspicion of accepting bribes, Itar-Tass reported.

Alexander Gusev, deputy head of the ministrys department on relations with federation subjects, the parliament and public associations, was detained by the Federal Security Service on Tuesday night, a ministry source told news agency.

Gusev is suspected of taking bribes in exchange for foreign travel passports and for placing people on official delegations traveling abroad, the report said.

Moscows Tverskoi District Court issued an arrest warrant for him Wednesday, Itar-Tass said.4

83-Year-Old Murder Suspect Detained

Police in Kamchatka have detained an 83-year-old woman suspected of beating her husband to death with a frying pan, regional authorities said Tuesday.

The pensioner and her husband, 89, were quarreling at about 9 a.m. Monday in their apartment in the Far East city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky when she grabbed the frying pan, smashed him over the head with it and then passed out, the regional branch of the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

She awoke to discover that her husband was not breathing, the statement said.

Police are investigating the incident and waiting for an autopsy to determine whether the blow from the frying pan caused the mans death, Interfax reported.

Police are reluctant to place the woman under arrest given her advanced age.5

Man Learns He Is a Prisoner

A Chelyabinsk man trying to register his gun discovered to his surprise that he was officially registered as serving a prison term, regional prosecutors said Tuesday.

The man, whose name was not given, went to police to get a license for his gun and was informed that he had been convicted of vehicular homicide in 2006 and was listed as serving time in prison, prosecutors said.

Investigators subsequently determined that a distant relative of the man was using the mans passport and drivers license during the trial.

A Chelyabinsk court has expunged the conviction from the mans record, prosecutors said.6

Air Rage Woman in Court

BANGOR, Maine  A Russian-born woman who purportedly consumed prescription drugs, wine and liquid soap then clashed with members of the flight crew on a London-bound jetliner has waived a bail hearing.

Galina Rusanova, a Russian-born artist who lives in London, appeared briefly in U.S. District Court on Monday before being returned to jail.

Rusanova faces federal charges of assault and interference with a flight crew.

Prosecutors say Rusanova, 54, punched and kicked attendants and began «snapping like a dog» while trying to bite a crew members leg.

The FBI said she had gone to Los Angeles to visit a man she met over the Internet and was returning Wednesday when her flight on Chicago-based United Airlines was diverted to Bangor.7

Corruption On the Rise

Policemen, teachers and doctors are the countrys top bribe takers, ahead of bureaucrats, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said in a new report, Vedomosti reported Tuesday.