British Police Investigate Poisoning of Putin Critic
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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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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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A rare radioactive substance killed an ex-KGB spy turned Kremlin critic, the British government said Friday. In a dramatic statement written before he died, the man called Russian President Vladimir Putin "barbaric and ruthless" and blamed him personally for the poisoning.
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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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An ex-KGB officer wanted in Britain on charges of murdering a prominent Kremlin critic says he feels in danger from the British authorities, a report published Sunday said.
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Police are piecing together evidence on how Russian former spy and Kremlin foe Alexander Litvinenko may have been fatally poisoned.
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Ukraine's parliament is to investigate the alleged poisoning of a leading presidential candidate.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 16 -- Escalating a diplomatic dispute with Britain, Russian security agents called in Russian employees of the British Council for questioning Wednesday and police briefly detained the Briton who heads the cultural organization's St. Petersburg office.
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A key witness in the poisoning death of a former Russian security agent was questioned Monday by British investigators at the Moscow hospital where he was undergoing tests for radiation contamination.
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The British ambassador on Monday handed Russian authorities a formal request for the extradition of a businessman accused as a suspect in the poisoning death of a former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic, an embassy spokesperson said.
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Russian prosecutors investigating the  poisoning in Britain of former spy Alexander Litvinenko on  Monday accused British officials of failing provide the  appropriate cooperation.
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British authorities said Friday that a toxic radioactive substance had been found in the body of a former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic who blamed a "barbaric and ruthless" Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Comment
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Britain is monitoring five planes for radiation in an ever widening probe into the poisoning of a former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow.
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A former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic who is fighting for his life in a London hospital may have been given another poison in addition to thallium, perhaps a radioactive substance, a doctor said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 5 -- British detectives visiting Russia to investigate the poisoning death of a former Russian intelligence officer in London will face broad restrictions in their work here, a senior Russian official said Tuesday.
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Mystery over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic has deepened after contradictory reports about what exactly has left him fighting for his life in a London hospital.
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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 radiation.