Poisoning latest blow to Russia's image
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This was the year the Russian government aimed to brighten its image overseas. A Kremlin-backed satellite TV channel went into full operation, the government newspaper began putting inserts in major foreign papers, and President Vladimir Putin hosted the G-8 summit of big industrialized democracies.
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Tensions between Britain and Russia have been aggravated by the poisoning death of a former Russian spy in London &#151; an issue that could strain sensitive negotiations on issues as diverse as energy, NATO expansion, and the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea.
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Mystery over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic has deepened after contradictory reports about what exactly has left him fighting for his life in a London hospital.
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After bootlegged vodka poisons thousands in Russia, John Sweeney looks at how the country is coping with the Yellow Death.
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Doctors treating former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who fell ill in Ireland last week, believe he was poisoned, an aide said Thursday.
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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  - In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 5 -- British detectives visiting Russia to investigate the poisoning death of a former Russian intelligence officer in London will face broad restrictions in their work here, a senior Russian official said Tuesday.
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The leading security force in the Ukraine is denying any involvement in the poisoning scandal of Viktor Yushchenko. The presidential candidateâs doctors confirmed earlier this month that the man was poisoned by dioxin back in September.
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British detectives investigating the poisoning death of a former KGB agent have ended their work in Moscow, as a key witness in the case faced a second round of questioning Monday, Russian news agencies reported.
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Russia's MPs are urged to consider a cheap "people's vodka" to reduce high death tolls caused by fake alcohol.
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Viewpoint: The murder of Alexender Litvinenko demonstrates, once again, how murder has become an accepted part of Russian power struggles. But the West can't &#8212; or won't &#8212;  do much about it
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For years, Chechnya's war and misery has been a wound in Russia's side that festered through mistreatment and neglect. After last week's school hostage tragedy, which followed twin airline explosions and a suicide bombing in Moscow just days before, the region's ills threaten to engulf the entire nation.
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Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko,  poisoned in London three weeks ago, has suffered a sudden turn  for the worse and is now very seriously ill, the hospital  treating him said on Thursday.
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MOSCOW -- Russia's foreign minister warned yesterday that continued suggestions of Kremlin involvement in the death of a former KGB agent could damage relations with Britain, which sent police to Moscow to expand the investigation into the London poisoning.
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British newspapers have turned the spotlight on Russian President Vladimir Putin over the radiation poisoning death in London of one of his fiercest critics.
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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.