Former KGB spy unbowed in criticism
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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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Among the locals, retired truck driver Pyotr Gagarin says he's known as a man who doesn't mince his words. Now he's known around Russia as a man who called his governor "scum" and wound up accused of extremism.
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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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A former Russian security agent who was fatally poisoned by a rare radioactive isotope accused a contact he met hours before falling ill of being involved in the poisoning, according to Russian billionaire and fierce Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky.
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A former KGB bodyguard accused by Britain of murdering emigre Alexander Litvinenko complained on Friday he was becoming so popular at home that crowds of fellow Russians hounded him to get an autograph.
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The shooting of a Russia expert near  Washington days after he publicly criticized President Vladimir  Putin has all the makings of a spy thriller, but police say it  was most likely a random street crime.
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A Russian dissident may have been poisoned in the UK with a radioactive substance, says an expert toxicologist.
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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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Contaminated by the same radioactive material that killed former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, Italian security consultant Mario Scaramella says he tried to warn the ex-spy. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Scaramella talked of e-mails full of details of how the two men were being targeted.
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LONDON, Nov. 25 -- An ex-KGB agent poisoned in London described in interviews before his death how he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published and broadcast Saturday.
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MOSCOW --The former KGB agent accused by British prosecutors with poisoning another former agent in London last November held a press conference yesterday to say MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, was a likely suspect in the killing.
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The widow of the murdered former Russian  spy Alexander Litvinenko says her husband angered members of  the Russian security services by speaking out against them, but  she never imagined they would kill him.
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A rare radioactive substance killed an ex-KGB spy turned Kremlin critic, the British government said Friday. In a dramatic statement written before he died, the man called Russian President Vladimir Putin "barbaric and ruthless" and blamed him personally for the poisoning.
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Media & professional: Since Russian reporter Yelena Tregubova criticised Putin's regime, at least one attempt has been made on her life, she tells David Hearst.
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Boris Kuznetsov made his name defending people who fell foul of the Russian state.
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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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In the five years since former KGB spy Vladimir Putin assumed power, the number of Russian spies has swelled to meet or exceed Cold War levels in the United States and Germany, according to Western media ...