The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office wants to interview more than 100 people in London as part of an investigation into the poisoning of ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Monday quoting a deputy prosecutor general.
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March 12, 2007A Russian journalist is seeking asylum in the United States after being allegedly poisoned, a British newspaper reported on Sunday. The U.S. embassy in Moscow, however, said they knew nothing about such case.
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Australian authorities are investigating a possible Russian connection to an alleged scam that promises people high-tech products for Christmas at prices that are hard to believe, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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December 20, 2006London’s Harrow Crown Court sentenced a Russian bank chief to six year prison term for coordinating an international identity theft operation, SC Magazine reported Wednesday.
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Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers are quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
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December 17, 2006Dutch health authorities said on Friday they have called in about 20 people for radiation testing after they stayed in a London hotel where poisoned former Russian FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko also spent time, Reuters news agency reports.
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25 school children got poisoned after taking pills in southwest Russia, the Emergencies Ministry’s city department said on Friday, the Xinhua news agency reports.
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December 15, 2006
German investigators are considering the possibility that polonium-210 was smuggled through the country and might be connected to the radioactive poisoning of a Russian security service defector in London, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
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December 13, 2006
A woman died Monday from burns suffered in a weekend blaze at a Moscow hospital, a city health official said, bringing to 46 the death toll from the Russian capital’s deadliest fire in decades, The Associated Press reported.
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December 12, 2006
Four people were hospitalized in Hamburg Monday, on suspicion they had been contaminated by polonium, the same radioactive substance that killed former Russian FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, The New York Times reported.
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