RUSSIA: Prosecutors asked a Moscow court yesterday to jail former economic development minister Alexei Ulyukayev for 10 years after he was found guilty of soliciting a £1.5 million bribe from his boss.

Mr Ulyukayev was arrested at the headquarters of national oil firm Rosneft last year in a sting operation by the FSB intelligence agency.

He denied the charges and said Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, had set him up.