1. The Berber protests have sparked more broad-based demonstrations against high unemployment, housing shortages, army corruption and a stagnant economy. 2. Police have arrested a suspect in the bomb assassination of a newspaper reporter who was investigating army corruption, officials said Wednesday. 3. He had been investigating alleged army corruption and was preparing to testify before a parliamentary commission. 4. He had been investigating alleged army corruption. 5. He was investigating army corruption when a bomb exploded in his briefcase and killed him. 6. It was the most sensational murder in Russia since the October bomb killing of Dmitry Kholodov, a newspaper reporter who was investigating army corruption. 7. Reports of army corruption abound. 8. The prominent daily newspaper Izvestia on Friday called for a civilian investigation into army corruption and said military prosecutors could not be objective. 9. The shooting followed the shocking bomb-slaying of Dmitry Kholodov, a newspaper reporter investigating army corruption, in October. 10. The shooting was the most sensational in Russia since the October slaying of Dmitry Kholodov, a newspaper reporter who was investigating army corruption. |