Former Soviet spy to be honoured
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An ex-Soviet spy who defected to Britain is to be honoured by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
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KRASNOYARSK. Nov 24 (Interfax-Siberia) - The Krasnoyarsk territorial court on Wednesday sentenced physicist Valentin Danilov, who is accused of spying for China, to 14 years in a high-security prison.
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LONDON -- British authorities announced yesterday that they are officially treating the fatal poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder and have found traces of a radioactive substance at the British Embassy in Moscow.
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Relatives and contacts of murdered Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko would agree to meet Russian detectives probing his death in Britain if their safety were guaranteed, a family friend said on Sunday.
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German police have uncovered a  radioactive trail linked to what prosecutors believe could be a  possible suspect in the murder of a former Russian spy in  London last month.
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British scientists will examine the corpse of a former Russian spy on Friday to try to discover when and how he ingested a fatal dose of radioactive material.
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Before his death, former spy Alexander Litvinenko was unbowed in criticizing alleged abuses by his homeland's government and relentlessly pursued information about the death of an investigative journalist who also had challenged President Vladimir Putin's regime.
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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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Russia on Monday cleared the way for  British detectives probing the mystery poisoning of former KGB  spy Alexander Litvinenko to visit Moscow, and promised to help  their investigation.
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A private funeral was due to take place in London Thursday for murdered Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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Increasing numbers of people are being tested for possible exposure to radiation in the investigation into the death of a former Russian spy as the post-mortem on his body was due to be carried out.
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As Alexander Litvinenko was laid to rest in London, investigators in Britain and Russia continued to seek answers in his radioactive poisoning death
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BUDAPEST-Early this month, Hungarians learned that a well-known television show host and theatre critic had been exposed as a former spy for the country's Communist-era secret police.
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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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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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Russia on Monday cleared the way for British detectives probing the mystery poisoning of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko to visit Moscow, and promised to help their investigation.
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The funeral takes place of a journalist said to have been investigating alleged Russian arms sales to Iran and Syria.