Crime stuff. 

Shabtai von Kalmanovic, former Soviet spy in Israel, major pop promoter in 90s and, apparently, collector of Socialist Realism, apart from being by many accounts a long-time associate and partner of many of Russia's and Israel's top gangsters, was shot dead in Moscow last week (Guardian). Here's a more detailed and colourful life-story than you'll find in the Western press, which describes Kalmanovich as "one of the biggest European collectiors of ceramics, pictures and jewellery, and one the biggest collectors in the world of old Jewish ritual silver" as well as listing his four wives and possible homosexual proclivities (general-ivanov, in Russian). 

The suspected murderers of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova have been arrested (Interfax). 

Russian emigre Dimitri Kirilik is accused of Israel's goriest-ever murder (Jerusalem Post). 

Gangster story with happy ending? Mafia boss arrested in Naples after trying unsuccessfully to mug Ukrainian couple in Mercedes (Lenta, in Russian).