Russia launches own murder probe as ex-spy is buried
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Russian prosecutors on Thursday launched their own murder investigation into the death of Alexander Litvinenko from radiation poisoning as the Russian former spy was buried at a rain-soaked ceremony in London.
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Russian detectives could fly to London  by the end of the week to conduct their own investigation into  the murder of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, the  Interfax news agency reported on Monday.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is to  be buried on Friday in a Muslim ceremony in or near London, following his radioactive poisoning, his father has said.
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Police launch investigation into Georgian tycoon death weeks after he prophesised his own demise
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German prosecutors opened an  investigation on Sunday into a Russian associate of the  murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko after finding traces of  the radioactive substance polonium in properties he used in  Hamburg.
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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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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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British police have prepared to head to Moscow as part of a widening probe into the death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, as diplomatic strains caused by the affair began to show.
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Police step up inquiries into the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, with officers due to fly to Moscow.
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Russia said on Friday it would consider trying the chief suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in its own courts but Britain rejected the offer, saying the trial should take place on British soil.
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Russia's security agency on Friday announced an espionage investigation based on statements by the suspect in Andrei Litvinenko's radiation poisoning, a move apparently targeting a Kremlin foe in Britain.
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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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The FBI and US police investigate the shooting of a friend of a former KGB agent poisoned in London.
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Moscow prosecutors launch a criminal inquiry after a suspected car bomber dies in police custody.
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Russian police seek Home Office  permission to visit the UK as part of their inquiry into Alexander Litvinenko's death.
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British police are treating the death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder, they confirm.
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A former KGB spy accused Vladimir Putin of his murder on Friday in a statement read out after his death, which British health officials said had been caused by a rare radioactive substance found in his body.