Russia hits back over U.S. spy chief's charge
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Russia on Thursday said a top U.S.  intelligence official was harboring "outdated assumptions"  about Moscow by accusing it of backtracking on democracy.
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Russia said on Friday it would consider trying the chief suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in its own courts but Britain rejected the offer, saying the trial should take place on British soil.
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Russia's Prosecutor General says any possible Russian suspects in the spy poisoning case would not be extradited to Britain.
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Â· OSCE says restrictions prevent it doing its jobÂ· Russia accuses observers of double standards
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Russia launches a spying case over claims by the man the UK accuses of killing ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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Russia's spy chief said Wednesday that his service has thwarted the work of nearly 100 foreign agents in the past year, and that the ex-Soviet Baltic nations have increased their espionage activity, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
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MOSCOW: On the day British police investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy began forensic work in Moscow, Russia's prosecutor general laid down strict ground rules and said no Russians could be ...Comment
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The Kremlin fought back against accusations its secret agents murdered a man in Britain for the first time since the Cold War on Friday, as President Vladimir Putin faced European leaders at a summit in Helsinki.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday dismissed as the blunt talk of an old spy accusations by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the United States sought to force its will on the world.
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Russian authorities charge a man with spying for Britain - the latest step in an espionage row between the two countries.
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Relations between Britain and Russia take sharp dive over Litvinenko case.
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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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Russia's top prosecutor said Friday that Russia could prosecute the chief suspect in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB agent if Britain presents enough evidence, but his counterpart in London demanded that the suspect face trial in a British court.
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Russia's chief prosecutor ruled out on  Tuesday any extraditions to Britain over the poisoning in  London of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko but said he would  help British police in their inquiries in Moscow.
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Russia has curtly told the United States to stay out of its business after US criticism, echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir Putin&#39;s plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power.
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"Under the constitution of the Russian Federation, Russian citizens cannot be handed over to foreign countries for prosecution and Lugovoy appears to be a Russian citizen."  By Mark Trevelyan and Peter GraffLONDON  - British prosecutors accused a former KGB agent on Tuesday of murdering dissident Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium and sought his extradition, throwing London and Moscow on to a diplomatic collision course.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it wanted to bring suspect Andrei Lugovoy before a British court and charge him with the "extraordinarily grave crime" of murdering exiled Russian Litvinenko in London last November. Read more
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Russia's Supreme Court upholds a 15-year sentence against a weapons expert convicted of spying for the US.