Dead Russian spy thought he would be safe in England, widow says
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in London thought he would be safe in England as an outspoken critic of Moscow, his widow has said.
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A former KGB agent was buried in a rain-swept London cemetery Thursday, his grave surrounded by Russian emigres and his body sealed in a coffin to prevent further contamination by the radioactive substance that killed him.
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The UK foreign secretary says thoughts should be with relatives of the dead in Beslan, not on the political implications.
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The wife of an ex-KGB agent fatally poisoned in Britain and the Italian security expert he met the day he fell ill both showed traces of the same radioactive substance found in the dead man's body, friends and officials said Friday.
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The chief suspect in the murder of  Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko paid a previously unreported  visit to London in the weeks before his poisoning with  radioactive polonium, a witness in the case told Reuters.
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A Russian former spy died 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 Thursday.
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The widow of the poisoned ex-spy Alexander V. Litvinenko said he worried about the safety of exiles after Russia passed a law legalizing attacks beyond its borders.
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A post-mortem examination on the body of poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko was being carried out in London Friday with special precautions being taken because of the nature of his death.Comment
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A Russian former intelligence officer was quoted in a newspaper on Friday as saying he and two other men met ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in a London hotel on November 1, the day before Litvinenko complained of feeling unwell.
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British officials sought on Saturday to allay public health fears following the killing by radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy who blamed his mysterious death on President Vladimir Putin.
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An Italian academic who met former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko the day he became ill from radiation poisoning is under protective custody in London and undergoing medical tests, a legal source said on Tuesday.
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Poisoned Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko was no spy for Britain, and such claims are no more than an attempt by the man accused of his murder to shield himself from justice, Litvinenko's widow said in an interview.
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LONDON -- Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky said yesterday that the life of the man accused of killing former spy Alexander Litvinenko could now be in danger because of what the suspect knows about the plot.
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The wife of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and  Mario Scaramella, Italian security contact he met in a London sushi bar, have both tested positive for traces of a radioactive substance following the former intelligence officer's death, friends and officials say.
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The former FSB boss of dead Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko called him a &quot;traitor&quot; who would have been executed under the Soviets, in a British television interview.
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Friends of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko were holding a memorial for him at a London mosque following his death from radiation poisoning, and before his funeral, his former spokesman said.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital on Thursday three weeks after he was poisoned in what friends said was a plot orchestrated by the Kremlin.