Two months later the prosecutor-general was fired and thrown in jail on charges of corruption.
Deputy prosecutor-general Andrei Shved said the blast was a terrorist act, but did not give further details.
Over the same period, 1, 500 orphans died in Russian adoptive families, according to the Russian prosecutor-general's office.
Marina Gridneva, from the prosecutor-general's office, said the checks were being conducted "in strict compliance with the current legislation".
The council has complained to Russian Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika about increased checks carried out on NGOs in 13 regions.
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After two months of clamour, they did last week get a meeting with the new interior minister, Nestor Martinez, and the prosecutor-general, Jaime Bernal.
It is not Vladimir Putin, nor the Media Minister, Mikhail Lesin, nor the head of the Federal Security Service, Nikolai Patrushev, nor the prosecutor-general Vladimir Ustinov.
The one big demand not to be met is for Mr Yanukovich to be sacked as prime minister (although the prosecutor-general's head rolled as a consolation).
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"Our best forces are now involved in the investigation, which is being supervised by the highest-ranking officials, " said Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor-General's Office.
Days earlier he had been made to sack his chief of staff and top security official, Nikolai Bordyuzha, who had bungled an attempt to remove the prosecutor-general, Yuri Skuratov, from office.
Others, such as the prosecutor-general, Jaime Bernal, are not.
Egypt's prosecutor general has ordered Mr Gaddaf al-Dam's detention for 30 days while charges against him are investigated.
Janet Reno, the attorney-general, may yet appoint an independent prosecutor to go after the president, too.
Last month his top lieutenant in the U.S., Paul Jannuzzo , a tightly wound former New Jersey prosecutor and 12-year veteran of the company, resigned as general counsel and chief operating officer.
And so Secretary Salazar and I are bringing in new leadership at the agency -- Michael Bromwich, who was a tough federal prosecutor and Inspector General.
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In his long tenure (1999-2006) as New York's attorney general, Spitzer honed a reputation as a hard-charging prosecutor who brooked no compromises when it came to enforcing the law.
On Wednesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon named Norman Farrell, the Canadian deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), as Mr Bellemare's successor.
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Attorney General Janet Reno sent her request for a special prosecutor to the special three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals on May 11.
On Thursday Hamas spokesman Ihab al-Ghusain denied the HRW allegation, saying that an inquiry headed by the prosecutor general had been set up just after the incident and had already made recommendations to the cabinet.
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Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika told reporters Tuesday that it's nonsense to assume the rare polonium-210 isotope came from Russia.
Mr Gaddaf al-Dam played down the arrest, saying he was going voluntarily to Cairo's prosecutor general with his lawyers "to file a complaint".
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