Moscow opens murder probe, new poisonings emerge
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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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Ukrainian lawmakers reopened their investigation Monday into Viktor Yushchenko's allegations that authorities tried to kill him, after doctors in Austria determined the presidential candidate had been poisoned ...
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LONDON -- British authorities said yesterday they are widening their investigation into the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko on the heels of a fresh series of leads into the Russian's murky political and business connections that spanned from Moscow to the United States.
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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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Ukraine will re-open the criminal investigation into the poisoning of presidential candidate Vikton Yushchenko, the prosecutor general's office said Sunday.
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Ukrainian MPs launch a new inquiry into the illness of Viktor Yushchenko after new reports of poisoning.
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KIEV -- The Ukrainian prosecutor-general's office announced yesterday that it had reopened an investigation into allegations that presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned, after doctors in Austria confirmed he had ingested dioxin.
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A British minister on Sunday condemned "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia and media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe the radiation death in London of a former KGB spy.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Litvinenko affair was damaging ties with Britain, and British detectives headed for Moscow as part of their investigation into the ex-KGB spy's death by poisoning.
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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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Ukrainian prosecutors said Wednesday they opened a criminal investigation into the alleged poisoning of a leading candidate in a crucial presidential election scheduled for next month.
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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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British detectives investigating the poisoning death of a former KGB agent have ended their work in Moscow, as a key witness in the case faced a second round of questioning Monday, Russian news agencies reported.
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Ukrainian prosecutors reopened their probe yesterday into allegations that opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned.
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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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British investigators in Moscow probing the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko met a witness in the case amid signs of discord with Russian prosecutors in the inquiry.
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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.