Russia’s foreign minister on Friday accused Britain of politicizing the investigation into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, warning it would strain relations between the two countries.
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June 1, 2007Alexander Litvinenko, 43, died in November last year after being poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium 210.
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May 26, 2007The evidence collected by British police saying about possible involvement of Andrei Lugovoi in Alexander Litvinenko’s murder is being translated into Russian.
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May 24, 2007In an interview with the Russia Today television Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun have denied the claims they were suspects in the Litvinenko case, saying the British police have questioned them only as witnesses.
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February 22, 2007
Alexander Litvinenko’s wife has thanked British police for their efforts in probing Russian links to his death, a spokesman said as detectives returned from Moscow, AFP news agency reports.
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December 21, 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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December 12, 2006
German investigators have confirmed that a car used by a contact of fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko before the two men met was contaminated with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210, The Associated Press reportes.
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December 11, 2006Andrei Lugovoi, a key witness in the investigation into the murder of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko’s death, said he was questioned on Monday by Russian and British detectives, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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Russian detectives could fly to London by the end of the week to conduct their own investigation into the murder of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday. Interfax said Russian investigators would go to Britain after a team of British detectives in Moscow finish speaking to witnesses about Litvinenko, who was murdered in London last month with a fatal dose of radiation.
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Andrei Lugovoi, a Russian businessman who met murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill is now sick from radiation poisoning, Reuters quoted local medical sources as saying on Friday.
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December 8, 2006
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