Litvinenko saga stranger than fiction
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It has all the ingredients of a classic Cold War spy novel: Russian agents, shady contacts, poisonings, radioactive materials and above all mystery; for many, &quot;The Litvinenko Affair&quot; could be a bestseller.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Russian billionaire pays over Â£25m for treasures Â· Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment
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Electronic Arts has announced that the anticipated next installment of the Bond series, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, has gone gold. The game will put players in the role of an aspiring 00 agent dismissed from MI6
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An inside look at the elaborate secrecy campaign around the biggest book of all time
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Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered over a damaging file he compiled for a British firm about a potential Russian business partner, the BBC said, citing a Litvinenko associate.
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NOVOSIBIRSK. June 18 (Interfax) - Novosibirsk researcher Oleg Korobeinichev, accused of disclosing state secrets, has demanded an official apology for the moral damages he suffered, Korobeinichev's defense lawyer Andrei Zhukov told Interfax.
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WARSAW -- The new scandal mesmerizing Poland seems lifted from a Cold War dossier: Spies, oil traders, a polo player, and a billionaire are tangled in a rumored plot by Moscow to manipulate its smaller neighbor.
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Police say Russian diplomatic mission gets pimping money Helsinki police say that a woman renting out apartments owned by the Russian trade delegation in Finland to prostitutes has benefitted the diplomats at ...
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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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LONDON/ROME  - A radioactive substance that killed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has been found in Italian contact Mario Scaramella but so far he shows no sign of radiation poisoning, a British hospital said on Saturday.
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British investigators visiting Moscow to probe the death of Russian former intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko are to meet key witness Andrei Lugovoi, Lugovoi said, as newspapers predicted the mystery would not be resolved quickly.
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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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The new scandal mesmerizing Poland seems lifted from a Cold War dossier: Spies, oil traders, a polo player, and a billionaire are tangled in a rumored plot by Moscow to manipulate its smaller neighbor.
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Business & money: Â· Former Rusneft chief says Kremlin bullied him outÂ· Warrant issued days after mysterious death of son
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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A new documentary about Russian  exile Alexander Litvinenko tries to put his sensational murder  into context, explaining why an individual, with the possible  backing of the authorities, would carry it out.