Russian leader faces ex-spy death questions
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The Kremlin fought back against accusations its secret agents murdered a man in Britain for the first time since the Cold War on Friday, as President Vladimir Putin faced European leaders at a summit in Helsinki.
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Russian foreign minister accuses UK of politicising investigation into death of former spy.
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Russian dissidents close to Alexander Litvinenko said Saturday they were worried about coming face-to-face with Moscow investigators who plan to visit London over the ex-Soviet spy's death from radiation poisoning.
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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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Russia will try ex-KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi for the murder in London of fugitive Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko if Britain provides sufficient evidence of his guilt, news agencies quoted Prosecutor General Yury Chaika as saying Friday.
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MOSCOW, Sep 17 (IPS) - The appointment of obscure politician Viktor Zubkov  as new Prime Minister by President Vladimir Putin raises critical  questions about the political successor to the presidency.
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British scientists will examine the corpse of a former Russian spy on Friday to try to discover when and how he ingested a fatal dose of radioactive material.
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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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A radioactive substance was found in the body of a former Russian spy who died last night after accusing the Russian president of being behind a plot to poison him.
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Ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of his murder from beyond the grave on Friday, in a statement read out the morning after he died of an unknown poison in a London ...Comment
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Russian investigators are looking into allegations that Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky could have been involved in the poisoning death in London of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a top law-enforcement official said Friday.
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LONDON, Nov. 23 -- Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy and vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died Thursday night in a London hospital after being mysteriously poisoned.
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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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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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An ex-KGB spy accused Vladimir Putin of his murder on Friday in a statement read out after his slow death from radiation poisoning, but the Russian president brushed off the accusations as "political provocation".
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LONDON -- A former KGB agent poisoned in London said in interviews before his death that he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published and broadcast yesterday. Alexander Litvinenko, a fierce critic of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, died Thursday of heart failure after becoming ill from what doctors ...
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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.