Mystery deepens over Russian ex spy's poisoning
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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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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison laced with a radioactive substance to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of poisoned Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is suffering from acute radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency said on Friday, citing his medical notes.
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British authorities said today 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 ...Comment
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The Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.
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A poisoned former Russian spy suffered heart failure and is on a ventilator, a friend said Thursday morning.
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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.
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MOSCOW -- A key witness in the poisoning death of a former Russian security agent was questioned yesterday by British investigators at the Moscow hospital where he was undergoing tests for radiation contamination.
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A former KGB spy accused Vladimir Putin of his murder on Friday in a statement read out after his death, which British health officials said had been caused by a rare radioactive substance found in his body.
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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.
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Interpol joins the investigation into the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, officials say.
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LOS ANGELES -- A physician well-known in this city's Russian community and her adult daughter were poisoned during a trip to Moscow last month, US Embassy officials confirmed yesterday, the latest in a string of Russian poisoning cases that have sparked international intrigue.
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A former Russian spy was buried Thursday in a sealed coffin to prevent further contamination by the radioactive substance that killed him. But whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with polonium-210 appears to have left a lengthening trail of victims.
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A former Russian spy may have been poisoned with radioactive thallium, the toxicologist treating him has said, after British counter-terrorism police took over the probe into what happened to him.
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Doctors are still trying to determine how a former Russian spy and prominent Kremlin critic was poisoned, but they have discounted suspicions that the toxic metal thallium was used, hospital officials said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW, May 31 -- The former KGB agent whom British prosecutors have accused of poisoning another former agent in London said Thursday that the British intelligence service MI6 was a likely suspect in the killing.
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison in a radioactive form to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.