MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - The apparent shooting of a mayor in a town near Moscow could be related to his official duties, prosecutors said Friday.
The bullet-ridden body of Viktor Dorkin, the mayor of Dzerzhinsk in the Moscow Region, was found Friday at a children's playground on Tomylinskaya Ulitsa in the town.
Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Savchenko has taken personal charge of the investigation into the killing.