Russia to investigate spy's death
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Russia begins its own investigation into the poisoning of a former spy, to run parallel to a British inquiry.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who had been fighting for his life in recent days after an apparent poisoning, has died, the hospital where he was being treated said.
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UK police investigating the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko search for radioactive substances.
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A post-mortem examination on the body of poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko was being carried out at the Royal London Hospital Friday with special precautions being taken because of the nature of his death.
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Britain is monitoring a Russian plane and three British aircraft in an ever widening probe into the death from radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow.
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British investigators visiting Moscow to probe the death of Russian former intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko are to meet key witness Andrei Lugovoi, Lugovoi said, as newspapers predicted the mystery would not be resolved quickly.
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Russia will help British detectives in  Moscow to investigate the poisoning death of ex-Russian spy  Alexander Litvinenko, but it will not extradite any suspects to  Britain, the chief prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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LONDON -- British authorities announced yesterday that they are officially treating the fatal poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder and have found traces of a radioactive substance at the British Embassy in Moscow.
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British detectives were in Moscow to continue their investigation into the mysterious poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, as diplomatic tensions between Britain and Russia rose closer to the surface.
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British detectives probing the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko have wound up their investigation in Moscow and are preparing to leave for home, the Russian news agency Interfax said on Monday.
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Russian prosecutors launched their own murder investigation on Thursday into the death in London from radiation poisoning of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, in parallel to a British probe already under way.
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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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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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Russia should carry out its own investigation into the poisoning death in London of former intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, the deputy justice minister was quoted by a newspaper here as saying.
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A key figure in the investigation into the fatal poisoning of a former KGB security agent said Friday that he plans to appeal to British authorities for information about the case's progress.
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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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Russia says it will launch an inquiry to unravel the sequence of events which brought a violent end to the school siege at Beslan in North Ossetia.