Russia: Britain politicizing spy case
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Russia's foreign minister on Friday accused Britain of politicizing the investigation into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, warning it would strain relations between the two countries.
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British detectives flew to Moscow as part of a widening probe into the radioactive poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, as diplomatic strains over the affair began to show.
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Russia's spy chief said Tuesday that the British foreign intelligence service tried to recruit a Russian citizen as an agent, an accusation likely to further sour relations strained by Britain charging a former Soviet-era spy in the murder of another ex-KGB officer.
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British police question a Russian dissident over his meeting with murdered ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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Britain is more interested in playing politics than solving the poisoning murder of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, senior Russian prosecutors said on Monday.
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Scotland Yard said that investigators from Russia were in London on Tuesday to discuss the inquiry into the poisoning death of a former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic.
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Tensions between Britain and Russia have been aggravated by the poisoning death of a former Russian spy in London &#151; an issue that could strain sensitive negotiations on issues as diverse as energy, NATO expansion, and the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea.
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A growing rift between Russia and Britain over the London murder of a former Russian agent prompted warnings Thursday of a full scale diplomatic conflict, complete with tit-for-tat expulsions.
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Russia accuses UK of seeking confrontation over Litvinenko case, but stops short of immediate tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats.
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A British government minister on Sunday condemned "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia as media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe the radiation death of an ex-KGB spy.
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Russia said on Friday it would consider trying the chief suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in its courts but Britain rejected the offer, saying the trial should take place on British soil.
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Prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown should tone down Britain&#39;s approach in its diplomatic row with Russia over the poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, Russia&#39;s ambassador to London said in an interview published Wednesday.
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Officers investigating the death of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko pursue inquiries in London and Moscow.
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MOSCOW, May 23 -- A senior Russian government minister Wednesday blithely dismissed any possibility of a deterioration in relations with London because of Britain's demand that a former KGB agent be extradited to stand trial for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, the exiled Kremlin critic who was...
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"Under the constitution of the Russian Federation, Russian citizens cannot be handed over to foreign countries for prosecution and Lugovoy appears to be a Russian citizen."  By Mark Trevelyan and Peter GraffLONDON  - British prosecutors accused a former KGB agent on Tuesday of murdering dissident Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium and sought his extradition, throwing London and Moscow on to a diplomatic collision course.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it wanted to bring suspect Andrei Lugovoy before a British court and charge him with the "extraordinarily grave crime" of murdering exiled Russian Litvinenko in London last November. Read more
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Britain is using the case of murdered Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in a political campaign that is harming ties with Russia, Interfax news agency quoted Russia's foreign minister as saying on Friday.
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The extradition of a suspect in the poisoning murder of an ex-KGB agent in London is in Russia&#39;s &quot;national interest,&quot; Britain&#39;s ambassador to Russia said in an interview published on Sunday.