Two Russians sentenced to 12, 9 years for spying - FSB
■ MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court sentenced on Monday two Russians for spying, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
The FSB said Y.N. Alekseyev and his wife, I.A. Starikova, were sentenced to 12 and nine years, respectively, in a high-security prison on charges of high treason, specifically spying for a Southeast Asian country.
The couple admitted to gathering and passing secret military information to a foreign intelligence service.
"They have received more than $300,000 from a foreign intelligence agent for the transfer of the said [secret] documents," the FSB said, without identifying the country in question.
It added that the couple was caught red-handed in 2007.
Militants kill 7 police in Dagestan
■ MAKHACHKALA (AP) - A Russian Interior Ministry official says that at least seven Russian police officers have been killed and several others wounded in a clash with militants in a restive Caucasus province.
Mark Tolchinsky says that militants killed a police officer in the Caspian Sea province of Dagestan Tuesday and then ambushed a police convoy in the area, killing another six.
Tolchinsky, a spokesman for Dagestan's branch of Russia's Interior Ministry, said that at least three other police officers were wounded.
Dagestan located east of Chechnya and other provinces in Russia's volatile North Caucasus have been troubled by violence linked to Chechnya-based rebels, an official crackdown on Islamic militancy, clan rivalries and internal power struggles.
Drunk man in Siberian village shoots four dead, attempts suicide
■ KRASNOYARSK (RIA Novosti) - A 28-year-old resident of a village in East Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory shot four people including a teenager dead with a hunting rifle before attempting suicide, a police source said on Thursday.
The man, believed to have been drunk at the time of the incident, killed two women, one man, and a teenager in a dispute that broke out after a party, before turning the gun on himself, the source told RIA Novosti.
