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FILE In this file photo taken on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, Oleg Sokolov, a history professor at St. Petersburg State University sits in a cage waiting for a court session in St. Petersburg, Russia. A court in St. Petersburg has ruled to delay the trial of a prominent history professor charged with murdering and dismembering a female student. The St. Petersburg City Court put off the trial's opening until Monday, June 15, 2020 on request of the defendant's lawyers, who argued that they hadn't had enough time to study the evidence. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Russian professor sent to prison for killing student

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FILE In this file photo taken on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, Oleg Sokolov, a history professor at St. Petersburg State University sits in a cage waiting for a court session in St. Petersburg, Russia. A court in St. Petersburg has ruled to delay the trial of a prominent history professor charged with murdering and dismembering a female student. The St. Petersburg City Court put off the trial's opening until Monday, June 15, 2020 on request of the defendant's lawyers, who argued that they hadn't had enough time to study the evidence. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Russia: Professor’s trial in student’s dismemberment delayed

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Oleg Sokolov, a history professor at St. Petersburg State University, left, listens to his lawyer sitting in a cage waiting for a court session in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. The lawyer for a prominent Russian history professor suspected of murdering a female student, some of whose remains were found in his residence, is asking for him to be released under house arrest pending trial. The case of Oleg Sokolov has attracted wide attention in Russian media because of its grisly drama. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Russian court arrests murder-suspect professor

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In this Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012 file photo, Oleg Sokolov, a history professor at St. Petersburg State University, wears a 1812-era French army general's uniforms during a staged battle re-enactment to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle of Borodino which in 1812 was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia, in St.Petersburg, Russia. Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg are planning to interrogate a prominent professor who has been detained on suspicion of killing a female student after being pulled from a frigid river on Saturday, Nov, 9, 2019 with a backpack containing severed arms. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File) (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Russian prof questioned after severed arms found in backpack

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In this Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012 file photo, Oleg Sokolov, a history professor at St. Petersburg State University, wears a 1812-era French army general's uniforms during a staged battle re-enactment to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle of Borodino which in 1812 was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia, in St.Petersburg, Russia. Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg are planning to interrogate a prominent professor who has been detained on suspicion of killing a female student after being pulled from a frigid river on Saturday, Nov, 9, 2019 with a backpack containing severed arms. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File) (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Oleg Sokolov, St. Petersburg State University professor, severed arms found in backpack

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