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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 man’s death, Interfax reported.

Police are reluctant to place the woman under arrest given her advanced age. 5 5 «The Moscow Times» 2009 год

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 man’s passport and driver’s license during the trial.

A Chelyabinsk court has expunged the conviction from the man’s record, prosecutors said. 6 6 «The Moscow Times» 2009 год

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 member’s 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 7 «The Moscow Times» 2009 год, AP.

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

Prosecutors sent 28,451 corruption cases to court last year, up 5.2 percent from 2007, Chaika said in the report, which is to be presented to the Federation Council on May 13.

«Corruption has been escalating over the last 10 years at every level of legal and government administration,» Chaika said in the report, Vedomosti reported.

Eighty percent of those charged with bribery took less than 30,000 rubles, ($900), the report said. 8 8 «The Moscow Times» 2009 год

Moscow police officer Denis Yevsyukov has been charged with multiple homicide for his rampage in a local supermarket last week in which he shot nine people, killing three, the Investigative Committee said Tuesday.

Authorities say Yevsyukov, head of a police precinct in southern Moscow, shot dead a cab driver and then walked into a supermarket where he shot eight more killing two. The investigation is continuing, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

If convicted, Yevsyukov faces up to life in prison. 9 9 «The Moscow Times» 2009 год

A senior regional police official was found dead with his wife and two young children in a partly burned car peppered with bullet holes near Rostov-on-Don, RIA-Novosti reported Wednesday.

It was not clear what the official, identified as a head of the special police unit SOBR from Nizhny Novgorod, was doing in the area with his family. The report said the children were born in 1998 and 2002. Investigators have determined that a Kalashnikov rifle was used to fire on the car and the attackers then set the vehicle on fire. But somehow the fire did not spread,» a police spokesman told RIA-Novosti. 10 10 «The Moscow Times» 2009 год

A police officer shot dead a suspected car thief at around 6 a.m. Wednesday in northern Moscow after the suspect attacked him with a hammer, Interfax reported.