A Moscow court on March 19 sentenced former Russian Deputy Education Minister and former Deputy President of Sberbank Marina Rakova to five years in prison on fraud and embezzlement charges. Other defendants in the high-profile case -- Sergei Zuyev, the former rector of Moscow's School of Social and Economic Sciences; his former subordinate, Kristina Kryuchkova; the former prorector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Ivan Fedotov; and the former top managers of Sberbank and the Fund for New Forms of Education Development, Yevgeny Znak and Maksim Inkin -- were handed suspended sentences of between three and four years. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.
