Russia lays down the law in spy death probe
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Russia laid down strict ground rules to visiting British counter-terrorism police probing the poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, and ruled out the extradition of any suspects.
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Police step up inquiries into the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, with officers due to fly to Moscow.
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Russia also announced it had opened its own criminal investigation into the death of Alexander V. Litvinenko.
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The head of an organization of former Russian spies was quoted as saying on Thursday Moscow abandoned its policy of assassinating enemies long ago, and that Alexander Litvinenko was probably murdered by criminals.
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Russia's security agency on Friday announced an espionage investigation based on statements by the suspect in Andrei Litvinenko's radiation poisoning, a move apparently targeting a Kremlin foe in Britain.
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Russia started pulling out some of its   diplomats, military staff and their families from Georgia on   Friday as the small ex-Soviet state pressed spying charges   against a group of Russian army officers.
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Russia's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday he would help British detectives in Moscow investigate the poisoning death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko but made it crystal clear his officials would be fully in control.
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Russian prosecutors on Thursday formally  opened a criminal investigation into the murder of ex-spy  Alexander Litvinenko who died of radiation poisoning in London  on November 23.
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A British minister on Sunday condemned "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia and media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe the radiation death in London of a former KGB spy.
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Russia has launched its own investigation into the Alexander Litvinenko affair.
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Russia began pulling out some of its   diplomats and their families from Georgia on Friday as the   small ex-Soviet state pressed spying charges against a group of   Russian army officers.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 7 -- Russian authorities have opened their own criminal investigation into the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, and are expanding the probe to include the attempted murder of a second man who met with Litvinenko in a London hotel last month.
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British detectives investigating the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko are said to be preparing to leave Moscow.
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British minister criticizes Russia's Vladimir Putin as police probe ex-spy's poisoning death LONDON, Nov.Comment
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Russian foreign minister accuses UK of politicising investigation into death of former spy.
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British police said on Wednesday they were now treating the death of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder.
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British detectives probing the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko have wound up their investigation in Moscow and are preparing to leave for home, the Russian news agency Interfax said on Monday.