UK is attacked in Litvinenko row
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The Kremlin attacks the UK's decision to expel four Russian diplomats as "groundless, inappropriate, unjustified".
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Russia said Thursday it was expelling four British diplomats in retaliation for a similar move by Britain, as a confrontation mounted between Moscow and London over the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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Russia's foreign minister blames  Gordon Brown's takeover as UK prime minister for the two countries' row.
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Russian media commentators criticise Britain's request for the extradition of Alexander Litvinenko's alleged poisoner Andrei Lugovoi.
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The European Union threw its weight behind Britain on Wednesday in a row with Russia over its refusal to extradite a man suspected of killing a former KGB agent in London last year.
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LONDON -- The European Union threw its weight behind Britain yesterday in a dispute with Russia over its refusal to extradite a man suspected of killing a former KGB agent in London last year.
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Russia&#39;s internal security service opened an espionage investigation Friday after the man wanted by Britain for the murder of ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko pointed the finger at Britain&#39;s MI6 intelligence agency.
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Russia expelled four British diplomats on Thursday and suspended cooperation with London on fighting terrorism, as a bitter row over Moscow's refusal to extradite a murder suspect escalated.
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Britain is using the murder of Alexander Litvinenko to start a "political campaign", Russia's foreign minister says.
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Britain will expel four Russian diplomats to protest Moscow&#39;s refusal to extradite a key suspect in the killing of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Litvinenko affair was damaging ties with Britain, which sent detectives to Moscow as part of the investigation into the ex-KGB spy's death by poisoning.
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President Vladimir Putin took a war of words with London to new heights Tuesday, angrily dismissing British demands for the extradition of the sole suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko as a relic of British "colonial thinking."
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A British Cabinet minister accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of 'attacks on individual liberty and on democracy' and said Sunday that relations with Moscow were strained after a former KGB agent was ...Comment
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Japan, Britain and the European Union all expressed worries on Tuesday about RussiaÂs actions.
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Russia's Federal Security Service opened a criminal espionage investigation on Friday into accusations that murdered ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko and a self-exiled Russian tycoon in London were both British spies.
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Prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown should tone down the government&#39;s approach in its diplomatic row with Russia over the poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, Russia&#39;s ambassador to London said in an interview published Wednesday.
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The European Union Wednesday weighed into a flaring diplomatic dispute between Britain and Russia by criticising Moscow for failing to cooperate with a probe into the murder of a former agent in London.