Poisoned spy 'had death threats'
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A friend of a poisoned Russian dissident said they both received e-mail threats days before he was taken ill.
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Andrei Lugovoi -- the man British authorities accuse of poisoning a former Russian spy in London last year -- told reporters today he wasn't behind the ex-KGB agent's murder, but speculated the British government may have been.
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An Italian contact of poisoned  former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both  were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets  they shared.
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A former Russian spy may have been poisoned with radioactive thallium, the toxicologist treating him has said, after British counter-terrorism police took over the probe into what happened to him.
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A letter left on the body of a Dutch film-maker murdered in Amsterdam contained death threats against a Dutch politician and was signed by an unknown group, the justice minister said tonight.
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LONDON/ROME  - An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets they shared.
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Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of poisoned Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is suffering from acute radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency said on Friday, citing his medical notes.
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The Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.
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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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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko,  poisoned in London three weeks ago, died on Thursday, the  hospital treating him said.
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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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An ex-KGB officer wanted in Britain on charges of murdering a prominent Kremlin critic says he feels in danger from the British authorities, a report published Sunday said.
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A journalist who plunged to his death from his apartment building window faced threats while reporting on a highly sensitive story that Russia planned to sell sophisticated missiles to Syria and Iran, his newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in London thought he would be safe in England as an outspoken critic of Moscow, his widow has said.
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A former Russian security agent who was fatally poisoned by a rare radioactive isotope accused a contact he met hours before falling ill of being involved in the poisoning, according to Russian billionaire and fierce Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky.
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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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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.