Alexander Litvinenko, who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his murder, had planned to blackmail a wealthy Russian businessman, the Reuters news agency reports.
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January 6, 2007
Russian investigators believe a former Yukos’ shareholder ordered the mysterious killing of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko. The investigators suspect that Leonid Nevzlin, who lives in exile in Israel, ordered the murder of Litvinenko, Russian daily Kommersant reported.
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December 29, 2006
Businessmen Leonid Nevzlin, Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky still remain on the Interpol internationally wanted list, head of the Interpol bureau in Russia Timur Lakhonin said at a press conference at Interfax.
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December 12, 2006
The ex-wife of a witness in the case of a former Russian security officer, her two children and boyfriend have been hospitalized in Germany with suspected polonium-210 poisoning, Itar-Tass news agency reported, quoting the the head of the investigation team in Hamburg.
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December 11, 2006Anthony Brenton, Britain’s ambassador to Russia has officially complaint of psychological harassment by Russian youth group Nashi (The Ours), the Financial Times daily reported on Friday.
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December 8, 2006
The funeral of the poisoned Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko was being held at Highgate Cemetery in north London today.
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December 7, 2006
Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said on Thursday that it had started own criminal investigation into the murder of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko who had dies in London of apparent radioactive poisoning.
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Russian investigators said they have begun questioning in the radiation poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, a case that has left radiation traces from a London soccer stadium to the British Embassy in Moscow, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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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 in Moscow as saying, Agence France-Presse reported.
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December 6, 2006Polonium-210, a highly toxic radioactive isotope widely believed to have been used to poison former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, can be manufactured even by a layman, a Russian former nuclear minister said Thursday.
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November 30, 2006
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