Eight killed in Moscow casino blaze .  MOSCOW 1996-08-25  Eight people died on Sunday in a blaze at a Moscow casino which the fire service said might have been started deliberately , Interfax news agency said .  The number of casinos has soared in Moscow since the collapse of communism .  The mayor has said he wants to cut their number to five as part of a war against organised crime .  President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on fighting crime in July and handed wide-ranging powers to security chief [START_ENT] Alexander Lebed [END_ENT] , currently engaged in making peace in breakaway Chechnya .
Eight killed in Moscow casino blaze .  MOSCOW 1996-08-25  Eight people died on Sunday in a blaze at a Moscow casino which the fire service said might have been started deliberately , Interfax news agency said .  The number of casinos has soared in Moscow since the collapse of communism .  The mayor has said he wants to cut their number to five as part of a war against organised crime .  President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on fighting crime in July and handed wide-ranging powers to security chief
Alexander Lebed
, currently engaged in making peace in breakaway Chechnya .
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