Friend names suspect in spy poisoning
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Britain's senior law enforcement official said Sunday an inquiry into the death of a former KGB agent had expanded overseas, and a U.S.-based friend of the former agent said he told police the name of the person he believes orchestrated the poisoning.
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Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of poisoned Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is suffering from acute radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency said on Friday, citing his medical notes.
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LONDON -- The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced yesterday as investigators found traces of radiation at a dozen sites in Britain and a Russian former prime minister reported symptoms consistent with poisoning.
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A former Russian spy poisoned in Britain and now hospitalized under guard may have been targeted for his criticism of former colleagues and his investigation into the killing of a prominent anti-Kremlin ...Comment
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The suspect in the fatal poisoning of Alexander V. Litvinenko said today that a British intelligence agency and a Russian tycoon had organized the killing.
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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.
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A second Russian businessman who met  murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill is  now sick from radiation poisoning, local media quoted medical  sources as saying on Friday.
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A poisoned former Russian spy suffered heart failure and is on a ventilator, a friend said Thursday morning.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 7 -- Russian authorities have opened their own criminal investigation into the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, and are expanding the probe to include the attempted murder of a second man who met with Litvinenko in a London hotel last month.
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Health experts investigating the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko from suspected poisoning said on Friday they had found a highly toxic radioactive isotope in his body.
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison laced with a radioactive substance to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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A key figure in the poisoning case of former spy Alexander Litvinenko fell into a coma after being questioned by Russian and British investigators, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
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LONDON, Nov. 19 -- British police are investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and have placed him under protective guard at a London hospital, a Scotland Yard spokesman said Sunday.
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The hospital treating a former Russian spy said Tuesday radioactive substances might have been used in the poisoning of Col.Comment
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Russia's security agency said Friday that it has opened an espionage case in connection with claims made by Andrei Lugovoi, the suspect named by Britain in the radiation poisoning death of former agent Alexander Litvinenko in London last year.
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British scientists probing the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by the same radiation that killed him.
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The wife of an ex-KGB agent fatally poisoned in Britain and the Italian security expert he met the day he fell ill both showed traces of the same radioactive substance found in the dead man's body, friends and officials said Friday.