UK honour for KGB defector
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KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky is honoured with the same title held by fictional spook James Bond.
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A former Russian spy poisoned in Britain and now hospitalized under guard may have been targeted for his criticism of former colleagues and his investigation into the killing of a prominent anti-Kremlin ...Comment
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A pro-Moscow Chechen leader accused by  rights groups of kidnapping and murder earned Russia's highest  award Wednesday for "valor and heroism."
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Britain&#39;s expulsion of four Russian  diplomats because Moscow refused to extradite a man suspected  of murdering ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was politically  motivated, a senior Russian prosecutor said on Monday.
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A Kremlin aide on Thursday renewed Russian pledges to help Britain investigate the death of a former KGB spy in London after British police found traces of radiation on two aircraft that had flown from Moscow.
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Once a senior KGB officer who says he was driven by patriotism, Sergei Tretyakov says he defected in 2000 because he lost faith in post-Soviet Russia and he's now ready to tell his story for the first time.
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British prosecutors seek extradition of a Russian suspect in the murder of an ex-KGB man.  But the Kremlin is balking
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ROME - Cat Stevens, the singer known for hits like Peace Train, has been honoured with a peace prize from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Friends of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko have held a memorial for him at a London mosque, two weeks after his death from radiation poisoning, his former spokesman said.
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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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The diplomatic tension between Britain and Russia took a new twist last night when a man linked to the murdered dissident Alexander Litvinenko sought political asylum in Britain
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LONDON -- Before Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent fatally poisoned in London last year, sought asylum in Britain, he first tried to flee to the United States, according to a new book that also offers fresh details of his uneasy life and relationship with the former KGB ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded a top state honour to ex-dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Tuesday, lauding his devotion to the &quot;fatherland&quot; at a lavish ceremony in the Kremlin.
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A Russian KGB officer who spent five years in a labour camp after he was convicted of spying for Britain during the 1980s has begun a hunger strike camped opposite British Prime Minister Tony Blair's residence.
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Britain has condemned Russia's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi over the Litvinenko murder.
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The body of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is to be buried in a special air-tight coffin in London later.
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Singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is to receive an award from ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.