Medvedev says corrupt Russian officials must be jailed

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MOSCOW | Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:28am EST

MOSCOW Nov 12 (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that all corrupt officials must be slung into jail.

"You cannot root out the problem of corruption through jailings alone," Medvedev said in his annual state-of-the-nation address. "But you must sling them into jail anyway." (Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov ; Editing by Conor Humphries)

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