| November 2006 |
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Experts from the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry have not found increased background radiation on two Boeing-737s in Moscow owned by Transaero, the ministry said Thursday. 
Doctors say the illness of post-Soviet Russian reformer Yegor Gaidar was caused by poisoning, but have not identified the poison, his press secretary said Thursday. "This is not poisoning by spoilt food products," Valery Natarov said. 
A senior Russian lawmaker on Thursday cautioned Serbia's predominantly Albanian province of Kosovo against unilaterally declaring its independence. 
Reports in the British media that people could have been infected with radioactive poisoning by coming into contact with Russian ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko before his death last week are absurd, a former Russian nuclear minister said Thursday.
Russia's Supreme Court upheld Thursday a guilty verdict against Alexander Koptsev, sentenced in September to 16 years in prison for stabbing nine people in a Moscow synagogue in January 2006, and for fueling religious hatred. 
Russian special services have no information on ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko's involvement in smuggling radioactive materials, a special representative of the president said Thursday. 
Polonium-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.



