FORMER Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko shot himself yesterday, hours before prosecutors were to question him about the killing of an investigative journalist five years ago.

Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko shot himself today, hours before prosecutors were to question him about the killing of an investigative journalist five years ago.

Ukraine’s former Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko was found dead today, hours before prosecutors were to question him about the killing of an investigative journalist five years ago, officials said.

Ukraine’s former Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko was found dead today at his country house outside Kiev, officials said.

A local leader of Russia’s main pro-presidential party was shot dead in Chechnya today in what the region’s prosecutor said was a contract killing linked to next month’s presidential election, Russian media reported.

The derelict nuclear submarine that sank in the fish-rich Barents Sea while en route to a scrapyard cannot be raised until at least next year, a Russian naval chief said today.

SUSPECTED Chechen rebel suicide bombers rammed vehicles packed with a ton of explosives into the local government headquarters in Grozny yesterday, gutting the building and killing at least 46 people.