Russia hopes to probe ex-spy's death
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Russian authorities hope to receive consent as early as next week to send investigators to Britain to probe the poisoning death of former security agent Alexander Litvinenko, the chief prosecutor's office said Sunday.
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British police said on Wednesday they  were now treating the death of poisoned former Russian spy  Alexander Litvinenko as murder, raising the stakes in an  investigation that has extended from London to Moscow.
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Russian prosecutors on Thursday formally opened a criminal investigation into the murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko who died of radiation poisoning in London on November 23.
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Prosecutors announced yesterday that they have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archeologist reported that he may have found the missing remains of Nicholas II's son and heir to the throne.
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Russian prosecutors said they were opening their own murder inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko as a funeral service was held for the former Russian spy at a central London mosque.
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The widow of murdered former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has written to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding he help the inquiry into his radiation poisoning death in London.
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Russia begins its own investigation into the poisoning of a former spy, to run parallel to a British inquiry.
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British police, in Moscow as part of an investigation into the Litvinenko poisoning, questioned on Wednesday a Russian who met the ex-spy the day he fell ill.
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Three people are sent for radiological tests following the death of the Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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A Russian former spy died late Thursday night in a London hospital three weeks after his suspected poisoning, with doctors unable to determine the cause of his illness, hospital officials and police said.
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UK police investigating the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko search for radioactive substances.
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MOSCOW -- Russia's foreign minister warned yesterday that continued suggestions of Kremlin involvement in the death of a former KGB agent could damage relations with Britain, which sent police to Moscow to expand the investigation into the London 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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Russia's top prosecutor said Friday that Russia could prosecute the chief suspect in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB agent if Britain presents enough evidence, but his counterpart in London demanded that the suspect face trial in a British court.
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Scotland Yard hands a file on the death of Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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British police investigating the poisoning of a former KGB agent formally requested assistance from their counterparts in Russia, whose foreign minister warned Monday that continued suggestions of Kremlin involvement in the death could damage diplomatic relations.
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The widow of murdered Alexander Litvinenko says the Russian authorities could have been behind his death.