41.   A senior Russian bank executive was stabbed to death in downtown Moscow in what appeared to be a contract killing, police said Tuesday.

42.   A nationalist politician was gunned down in an apparent contract killing in St. Petersburg on Friday, a news report said.

43.   A top democratic lawmaker, Galina Starovoitova, was murdered last month in St. Petersburg in an apparent contract killing.

44.   A top lawmaker, Galina Starovoitova, was slain last month in St. Petersburg in an apparent contract killing.

45.   A wealthy regional official was brutally gunned down in western Ukraine in an apparent organized crime contract killing, officials said Tuesday.

46.   Agemberdiyev said the shooting could have been a contract killing, with Umarov the main target.

47.   An unknown assailant shot and killed the chief of a commercial concern Thursday in what police said appeared to be a contract killing.

48.   And statistics show contract killings are frequent across the country.

49.   An Irish court Monday ordered the extradition of an American lawyer accused of the contract killing of her brother-in-law.

50.   APTN looks at a string of brutal contract killings in St. Petersburg, where criminal experts warning there is more to come.