Russia Calls Evidence in Poison Case Inadequate
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MOSCOW, July 23 -- A British legal request for the extradition of murder suspect Andrei Lugovoy was based on a flawed, politicized investigation, a senior Russian prosecutor said Monday.
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MOSCOW -- In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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Russia's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday he would help British detectives in Moscow investigate the poisoning death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko but made it crystal clear his officials would be fully in control.
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Russia slammed the British investigation into the murder of ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko as biased on Monday, accusing London of &quot;conceit&quot; for suggesting changes to Russia&#39;s constitution.
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Russia will try the chief suspect in the  murder of Alexander Litvinenko if Britain supplies sufficient  evidence of his guilt, Interfax news agency quoted Russia&#39;s  chief prosecutor as saying on Friday.
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Russia's foreign intelligence service has denied poisoning a former spy, the Interfax news agency says.
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MOSCOW  - In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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Russia will help British detectives in  Moscow to investigate the poisoning death of ex-Russian spy  Alexander Litvinenko, but it will not extradite any suspects to  Britain, the chief prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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A key figure in the investigation into the fatal poisoning of a former KGB security agent said Friday that he plans to appeal to British authorities for information about the case's progress.
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The Russian Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from an arms control researcher who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason in what rights advocates have called a politically motivated case.
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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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Mothers of Russian children killed in the Beslan school siege three years ago rejected Kremlin promises on Saturday of a thorough investigation, saying the government was complicit in the deaths.
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Russian prosecutors have officially refused Britain's request to extradite a businessman accused in last year's fatal poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko said  on Sunday he was certain Ukraine's authorities had poisoned him  with dioxin and hoped prosecutors would establish the truth  after this month's re-run of a rigged presidential election.
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Disputes between Russia and the United States over funding and lucrative contracts are hampering an international effort to destroy the world's largest chemical weapons arsenal, experts said Wednesday.
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Western powers put their plan for a court to prosecute the murder of a former Lebanese prime minister before the U.N. Security Council on Friday, but Russia raised objections to its compulsory nature.
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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.