Poisoned ex-Russian spy dies
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko  died in a London hospital on Thursday three weeks after he was  poisoned in what friends said was a plot orchestrated by the  Kremlin.
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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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The head of an organization of former Russian spies was quoted as saying on Thursday Stalin-era policies of Moscow assassinating enemies had ceased, and ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was probably murdered by criminals.
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Who was behind ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko's highly public demise?
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An inquest is due to be opened into the death of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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The wife of an ex-KGB agent fatally poisoned in Britain and the Italian security expert he met the day he fell ill both showed traces of the same radioactive substance found in the dead man's body, friends and officials said Friday.
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A Russian former spy died Thursday night in a London hospital three weeks after his suspected poisoning, with doctors unable to determine the cause of his illness, hospital officials and police said Thursday.
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LONDON -- Russia plans to send investigators to London to conduct inquiries into the death of a former KGB agent, the chief prosecutor's office said yesterday, as forensic teams combed two houses in Germany and a London hotel now at the center of the investigation into his poisoning.
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Andrei Lugovoy, a contact of poisoned  Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is suffering from  radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency said on Friday,  quoting medical sources.
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A key witness in the poisoning death of a former Russian security agent was questioned Monday by British investigators at the Moscow hospital where he was undergoing tests for radiation contamination.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko -- poisoned in London three weeks ago -- has taken a sudden turn for the worse and is now very seriously ill, the hospital treating him said on Thursday.
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Murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed because of an eight-page dossier he had compiled on a powerful Russian figure for a British company, a business associate told the BBC on Saturday.
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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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Former spy Alexander Litvinenko has blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for his death in a posthumous letter, condemning him for what he had done to &quot;beloved Russia and its people.&quot;
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British scientists probing the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by radiation. Media reports said the man was an Italian he met at a London restaurant.
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A coroner in Britain formally opened an inquest Thursday into the death in London of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with a radioactive substance.
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A former Russian spy who said he had been poisoned died Thursday night at a London hospital, following a mysterious and rapid decline that left doctors unable to pinpoint the cause of death, officials said.