Shooting of banker threatens Russia
Andrei Kozlov, a top central banker crusading against money-laundering, had just finished playing soccer with colleagues when two assailants pumped him full of bullets. Officials suspect the slaying was ordered by crooked financiers unhappy with Kozlov’s drive to clean up the system — underscoring how Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains a cauldron of murky business interests rife with gangland killings. Full Story