Suspicions Cast on Russia After Poisoning
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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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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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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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British detectives flew to Moscow as part of a widening probe into the radioactive poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, as diplomatic strains over the affair began to show.
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A Russian dissident may have been poisoned in the UK with a radioactive substance, says an expert toxicologist.
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International police agency Interpol is helping coordinate the investigation into the poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, with a trail now running through Germany, Russia and Britain.
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MOSCOW -- Russia will not permit extradition of any suspect sought by British investigators probing the London poisoning of a former Russian spy and will take charge of all witness interrogations while Scotland Yard detectives are in Moscow, Russia's top prosecutor said yesterday.
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LONDON -- British authorities said yesterday they are widening their investigation into the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko on the heels of a fresh series of leads into the Russian's murky political and business connections that spanned from Moscow to the United States.
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Scotland Yard traced the final steps of a former KGB spy turned Kremlin critic after officials determined he was poisoned by a rare radioactive substance
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison laced with a radioactive substance to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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A former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic who is fighting for his life in a London hospital may have been given another poison in addition to thallium, perhaps a radioactive substance, a doctor said Tuesday.
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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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A key figure in the poisoning case of former spy Alexander Litvinenko fell into a coma after being questioned by Russian and British investigators, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
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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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MOSCOW, Dec. 7 -- Russian authorities have opened their own criminal investigation into the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, and are expanding the probe to include the attempted murder of a second man who met with Litvinenko in a London hotel last month.
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The investigation into the death of a Russian dissident in London heats up and sheds an ugly light on Vladimir Putin's rule
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Russia has launched its own investigation into the Alexander Litvinenko affair.