Ramzan Kadyrov, acting president of Chechen Republic, blamed exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky for the deaths of former spy Alexander Litvinenko and reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
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February 22, 2007Moscow city hall denied permission to hold a march to commemorate journalists killed in Russia over the past years. The event was to take place next Sunday, the radio station Ekho Moskvy reports.
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December 12, 2006
President Vladimir Putin said investigators have achieved “definite results†in their probe of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s killing, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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December 8, 2006
Doctors who have failed to diagnose former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar’s mysterious illness say they suspect poisoning but are unable to detect a toxic substance, an aide is quoted by Xinhua news agency.
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December 6, 2006
Although their documents were completely in order, ORF (Austrian public channel) journalist Susanne Scholl and her team have been arrested on the 24th of november in Chechnya.
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November 30, 2006Anatoly Chubais, head of Russian power monopoly Unified Energy Systems of Russia doubts that the ailment affecting Russian economist and politician Yegor Gaidar was caused by natural factors, the Interfax news agency reports.
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November 29, 2006Slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose killing former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko had been reportedly investigating before his death by poisoning last week, had said President Vladimir Putin was killing democracy in an interview broadcast for the first time Friday by the BBC, The Associated Press reports.
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November 27, 2006Poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko suffered heart failure overnight and is now on a ventilator, Alexander Goldfarb, a friend of the former KGB spy said Thursday morning.
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November 23, 2006
Professor Mario Scaramella, 38, who describes himself as a defence consultant, was surrounded by four bodyguards as he arrived for the Rome conference, SkyNews reports. Journalists had been summoned by SMS texts.
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November 22, 2006British police are investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and have placed him under protective guard at a London hospital, Washington Post reported citing a Scotland Yard spokesman.
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November 20, 2006
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