Contact says secret Russian groups poisoned ex-spy
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An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko accused "clandestine organizations" from Russia that were not under direct control of the Kremlin of targeting his dead friend.
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MOSCOW -- A key witness in the poisoning death of a former Russian security agent was questioned yesterday by British investigators at the Moscow hospital where he was undergoing tests for radiation contamination.
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British police are working out how former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko might have been poisoned with a highly toxic radioactive substance, and who could be behind it.
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Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky said on Monday former agent Alexander Litvenenko had told him he suspected Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoy of being involved in his poisoning.
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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 second Russian businessman who met  murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill is  now sick from radiation poisoning, local media quoted medical  sources as saying on Friday.
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A close contact of Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-Russian spy who died after apparently being poisoned with radioactivity, is in a London hospital after testing positive for the same substance.
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MOSCOW, May 31 -- The former KGB agent whom British prosecutors have accused of poisoning another former agent in London said Thursday that the British intelligence service MI6 was a likely suspect in the killing.
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Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of dead Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is in critical condition in hospital from radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying on Thursday.
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Friends of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko accused "evil forces" in Russia on Friday of being responsible for his death in London and said the poisoning of the ex-colonel was an act of revenge.
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A contact of the poisoned ex-intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko is seriously ill with radiation sickness and has briefly been in a coma, a medical source said as an investigation into the mystery broadened.
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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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A Russian dissident may have been poisoned in the UK with a radioactive substance, says an expert toxicologist.
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Health experts investigating the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko from suspected poisoning said on Friday they had found a highly toxic radioactive isotope in his body.
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A key figure in the investigation into the fatal poisoning of a former KGB security agent said Friday that he plans to appeal to British authorities for information about the case's progress.
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A former prime minister said Thursday that he is certain that poisoning, most likely by opponents of the Kremlin, caused his mysterious illness a day after a former Russian spy died of radiation poisoning.
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A second Russian businessman who met murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill is now sick from radiation poisoning, local media quoted medical sources as saying on Friday.