Former Russian lawmaker shot dead in Kyiv:
By RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
A former Russian lawmaker who defected to Ukraine in 2016 and has compared Russia with Nazi Germany has been shot dead in Kyiv, police say.
Kyiv police chief Andriy Kryshchenko told RFE/RL that he was killed in a shoot-out on a central street in the Ukrainian capital on March 23.
Denis Voronenkov, 45, was a Communist Party deputy in the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, from 2011 until elections in September 2016.
Voronenkov and his wife, Maria Maksakova, also a former Russian lawmaker, left Russia for Ukraine in October 2016 after Russian investigators called for a probe into allegations he was involved in the illegal seizure of property in Moscow.
In an interview with RFE/RL in February, Voronenkov compared present-day Russia with Nazi Germany, saying that Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) controlled everything in the country.
He also called Russia's March 2014 seizure of Ukraine's Crimea region "a mistake" and said he had testified against former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted by pro-European protests in Kyiv in February 2014. (w/UNIAN, Interfax, and Republic.ru)