- 12:35 30/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 30 (RIA Novosti)
Former KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi was a target, not a suspect, in the Polonium-210 poisoning that killed security service defector Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, the Russian Investigative Committee said.
- 11:12 30/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russian investigators have opened a criminal case into a murder attempt against Andrei Lugovoi, the former KGB bodyguard who was accused of poisoning Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 in London, a police source said on Wednesday.
- 13:52 06/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 6 (RIA Novosti)
The U.K. Crown Prosecution Service wants to charge a second man with the murder of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in London in 2006, The Sunday Times reported.
- 23:18 11/10/2011 LONDON, October 11 (RIA Novosti)
Hearings on the death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko should be open for the public and media, the Russian embassy in London said in a statement on Tuesday.
- 22:48 03/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russia on Monday again denied any involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and challenged Britain to present any evidence to the contrary.
- 13:20 12/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti)
Former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi, the chief suspect in the 2006 killing of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, has said he will demand Litvinenko's autopsy results from British police.
- 19:44 15/12/2010
Moscow's response to a European Court of Human Rights request to provide information on former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko poisoning is likely to disappoint Britain, London's main suspect said on Wednesday.
- 14:56 15/12/2010
The European Court of Human Rights has given Russia a deadline before March 16 to provide information on the murder case of poisoned former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko.
- 21:27 14/12/2010
The European Court of Human Rights, considering a complaint from the widow of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, has sent Russia a number of questions on the probe into Litvinenko's death, human rights association Agora reported Tuesday.
- 10:58 12/12/2010
Russia was tracking the killers of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko before he was poisoned but was warned off by Britain, which said the situation was under control, The Guardian reported on Sunday referring to WikiLeaks cables.
- 19:24 21/11/2010
Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom on Sunday denied claims by the British media that former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium originated from Russia.
- 16:00 23/11/2007
Relatives and friends have paid tribute to Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB officer and Kremlin critic who died in London exactly a year ago.
- 18:26 22/11/2007
Andrei Lugovoi, an ex-Kremlin bodyguard who London accuses of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB officer and Kremlin critic, mocked British special services on Thursday.
- 17:41 01/11/2007
Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko could have died of radioactive poisoning through his own negligence, a Russian witness in the case said on Thursday.
- 16:14 29/08/2007
Andrei Lugovoi, the U.K.'s key suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, said Wednesday that businessman Boris Berezovsky was involved in the crime, as well as in the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
- 15:40 29/08/2007
Andrei Lugovoi, the U.K.'s key suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, said Wednesday the Crown Prosecution Service has no evidence to prove his guilt.
- 22:00 28/08/2007
Russia has not yet received any evidence from Britain on Andrei Lugovoi, Scotland Yard's key suspect in the murder of a former Russian security officer, the head of the investigating committee at the General Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday.
- 10:49 28/08/2007
Two Russians who allegedly met with Alexander Litvinenko on the day of his poisoning will field questions at a Wednesday news conference organized by RIA Novosti and a Moscow radio station.
- 15:37 21/07/2007
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office will make Monday an official statement regarding its cooperation with British authorities in the investigation of the widely-politicized murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
- 10:32 16/07/2007
The U.K. could expel a number of Russian diplomats following Moscow's refusal to extradite businessman Andrei Lugovoi, the main suspect in the murder of former security officer Alexander Litvinenko, a respected British paper said Monday.
- 17:54 15/06/2007
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has launched an investigation into British intelligence activities in Russia after statements made by businessman Andrei Lugovoi against a former FSB officer and tycoon, the service said Friday.
- 10:25 15/06/2007
Russia's Federal Security Service has opened a criminal case on espionage charges, following checks into businessman Andrei Lugovoi's statements against a former FSB officer and a fugitive oligarch, the service said Friday.
- 18:15 01/06/2007
The U.K. Embassy in Moscow rejected Friday the Russian foreign minister's allegation that British authorities are using the Litvinenko affair for political ends, harming bilateral relations.
- 17:17 01/06/2007
The U.K. Embassy in Moscow said Friday that British authorities were treating the Litvinenko affair as a criminal case of particular importance.
- 15:17 01/06/2007
Alexander Litvinenko visited Chechnya to eliminate witnesses linking tycoon Boris Berezovsky to the terrorist warlord Shamil Basayev, a deputy Russian Interior Ministry said Friday.
- 20:13 31/05/2007
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) pledged Thursday to examine statements made by agent-turned-businessman Andrei Lugovoi and his colleague, over possible threats to national security.
- 16:29 31/05/2007
Andrei Lugovoi, accused by the U.K. of poisoning a former Russian intelligence officer, alleged Thursday that the murdered Alexander Litvinenko and fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky worked for the British secret services.
- 13:19 31/05/2007
Andrei Lugovoi, the chief suspect in the poisoning of a former Russian agent, said that the murdered Alexander Litvinenko and fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky worked for the British secret services.
- 12:19 31/05/2007
A suspect in the poisoning of a former Russian agent told a Moscow news conference Thursday that the murdered Alexander Litvinenko and fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky worked for the British secret services.
- 14:49 30/05/2007
Russia insists on the extradition of Boris Berezovsky from the United Kingdom, but will not swap a suspect in a poisoning case for him, a Prosecutor General's Office spokesman said Wednesday.
- 16:35 28/05/2007
A senior member of the State Duma said Monday if a former FSB guard accused of murdering former Russian secret service officer, Alexander Litvinenko, stands trial British investigators could participate in the proceedings.
- 21:25 25/05/2007
British prosecutors said Friday they had filed an extradition request with the Home Office, to be sent to Russia, for a former FSB guard accused of murdering ex-spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
- 19:31 25/05/2007
Russia's prosecutors have not yet received an official statement from UK authorities on the reasons for ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko's death in November 2006, the prosecutor general said Friday.
- 16:19 25/05/2007
Russia's top prosecutors have not yet received an official statement from UK authorities on the reasons for ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko's death in November 2006, the prosecutor general said Friday.
- 21:10 23/05/2007
A documentary about former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London at the end of last year, will have its premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend, the film director said Wednesday.
- 16:50 23/05/2007
A documentary about former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London at the end of last year, will have its premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend, one of the film's co-directors said Wednesday.
- 20:53 22/05/2007
Russia is waiting for details from the U.K. on charges it brought against Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi in the Alexander Litvinenko assassination case, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
- 19:45 22/05/2007
British prosecutors announced Tuesday that they would seek the extradition of Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi to charge him with poisoning Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko last November.
- 17:31 22/05/2007
British prosecutors announced Tuesday that they would seek the extradition of Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi to charge him with poisoning Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko last November.
- 14:18 22/05/2007
British prosecutors announced Tuesday that they would seek the extradition of Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi, to charge him with poisoning Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko last November.
- 20:31 10/04/2007
A key witness in the murder of security service defector Alexander Litvinenko said Tuesday that German prosecutors have refused to ensure his guaranteed return to Russia if he decides to travel to Germany for questioning.
- 19:30 05/04/2007
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky Thursday pledged legal and other support for two key figures involved in the case of the murdered former secret agent Alexander Litvinenko.
- 13:04 02/04/2007
A new anonymous witness in the case of a former Russian security officer poisoned in London last year implicated U.K.-based fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky in an interview with state television Sunday.
- 22:03 30/03/2007
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky and fellow exile Ahmed Zakayev have been questioned for almost four hours by Russian investigators working in the United Kingdom to probe last November's murder of former secret agent Alexander Litvinenko, a RIA Novosti correspondent said Friday.
- 11:29 12/03/2007
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, a deputy prosecutor general said Monday.
- 17:30 19/02/2007
A Russian investigator is due to arrive in London on Monday to carry out the preliminary work prior to the arrival of the main investigative group in the ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko death case.
- 15:25 05/02/2007
- 13:48 26/01/2007
Russia's top prosecutors rule out the extradition to the UK of a key suspect in the murder of security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, a source in the Prosecutor General's Office said Friday.
- 17:57 25/01/2007
Polonium-210, which Russia supplies to the United States, is worth no more than several tens of thousands of dollars, a source in the Russian nuclear section said Thursday.
- 17:20 14/01/2007
Russian investigators are preparing to go to Britain to investigate the murder of former Federal Security Service defector Alexander Litvinenko, Russia's general prosecutor said Sunday.
- 21:29 27/12/2006
Some of the former Yukos executives could be involved in the murder of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, Russia's top prosecutors said Wednesday.
- 18:14 27/12/2006
A key witness in the murder case of former Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko said Wednesday the results of his radiation tests could be released shortly after New Year's.
- 18:35 20/12/2006
The autopsy results of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko cannot be expected before Christmas, a London court spokesman said Wednesday.
- 21:59 14/12/2006
The ex-wife of Dmitry Kovtun, a witness in the case of a murdered former Russian security service officer, was released from a hospital in Germany Thursday along with her children and boyfriend, Kovtun's German lawyer said.
- 19:25 14/12/2006
Businessman Andrei Lugovoi, a key witness in the case of a Russian security service defector's murder, said Thursday the results of his medical examination will not be known on Friday, as previously expected.
- 16:08 14/12/2006
- 14:53 14/12/2006
Police in the German city of Hamburg said Thursday there is no evidence that Dmitry Kovtun, a key witness in the murder case of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, was in Berlin last night.
- 21:35 13/12/2006
A former security service officer said Wednesday he never accused an organization of former Russian intelligence officers of being involved in the poisoning of defector Alexander Litvinenko.
- 18:28 13/12/2006
Russian prosecutors are ready to help Germany investigate the so-called "Kovtun case," the spokesman for the Prosecutor General's office said Wednesday.
- 14:29 13/12/2006
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.
- 21:53 12/12/2006
Hamburg police investigating the case of Dmitry Kovtun, a Russian agent-turned-businessman linked to the radiation poisoning scandal in London, have requested Russia's help, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
- 21:00 12/12/2006
Hamburg police investigating the case of Dmitry Kovtun, a Russian agent-turned-businessman linked to the radiation poisoning scandal in London, have requested Russia's help, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
- 18:35 12/12/2006
Doctors have diagnosed no serious radiation poisoning of the ex-wife of a witness in the case of a murdered former Russian security service officer, her children or boyfriend, the chief doctor of a hospital in Hamburg said Tuesday.
- 16:11 12/12/2006
A key witness in the Russian ex-spy murder investigation denied foreign media reports Tuesday that he could be questioned again.
- 14:11 12/12/2006
Interpol has joined Russian, British and German investigators in their probe of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko's murder in London, the head of the international law enforcement organization's Russia branch said Tuesday.
- 18:39 11/12/2006
The ex-wife of a witness in the case of a former Russian security officer, her two children and boyfriend have been hospitalized in Germany with suspected polonium-210 poisoning, the head of the investigation team in Hamburg said Monday.
- 13:40 11/12/2006
Russian prosecutors may fly to London soon to probe the lethal poisoning of a former security service officer, a source close to the investigation said Monday.
- 17:00 10/12/2006
Police in the German city of Hamburg on Sunday reported finding the traces of polonium-210 at places linked to a contact of poisoned former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko.
- 17:51 09/12/2006
Police in the German city of Hamburg on Saturday reported finding traces of radiation in places visited by a key witness in the murder case of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko.
- 17:19 08/12/2006
Russian and British investigators have started questioning a key witness in the case of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko's murder by radiation poisoning, a source close to investigators said Friday.
- 21:52 07/12/2006
- 21:31 07/12/2006
A KGB defector refuted Thursday allegations relating to the Italian prime minister made by Mario Scaramella, an Italian security consultant and contact of late former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.
- 18:39 07/12/2006
Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, killed by poisoning in London last month, was laid to rest in a London cemetery Thursday.
- 18:10 07/12/2006
Five Russian companies and the chemistry faculty of Moscow State University hold licenses to deal with substances containing polonium-210, the national nuclear watchdog said Thursday.
- 16:38 07/12/2006
Russia's top prosecutors launched Thursday a criminal investigation into the poisoning of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, and into a related murder attempt on a Russian businessman.
- 16:14 07/12/2006
The questioning of a key witness in the Alexander Litvinenko murder probe has been postponed for technical reasons, a defense lawyer said Thursday.
- 14:01 07/12/2006
The investigation into the murder of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko in London does not affect relations with Britain on the Russian side, the foreign minister said Thursday.
- 12:06 07/12/2006
A Russian intelligence services veterans association has dismissed allegations of its involvement in the death of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, a group spokesman said Thursday.
- 21:31 06/12/2006
British experts investigating Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko's death in London found insignificant traces of radiation in the U.K.'s Moscow Embassy, a diplomatic spokesman said Wednesday.
- 19:54 06/12/2006
Russian and British investigators have begun questioning witnesses in the case of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko's death in London, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said Wednesday.
- 18:24 06/12/2006
Investigators might not be able to question Wednesday a key Russian witness in the case of an ex-FSB agent's death in London, as he is undergoing a medical examination, a source close to the witness said.
- 17:04 06/12/2006
Investigators might not be able to question Wednesday a key Russian witness in the case of an ex-FSB agent's death in London, as he is undergoing a medical examination, a source close to the witness said.
- 21:13 05/12/2006
Britain's government does not believe the investigation into an ex-FSB agent's death in London is part of an anti-Russian campaign, the British ambassador in Moscow said Tuesday.
- 19:14 05/12/2006
Russia's top prosecutor said Tuesday Scotland Yard detectives currently in Moscow investigating an ex-FSB agent's death in London would not be able to arrest and extradite Russian suspects that may emerge in the case.
- 16:55 05/12/2006
- 16:34 05/12/2006
Russia's domestic security service said it will not comment on British media reports of its alleged involvement in the killing of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.
- 12:16 05/12/2006
Scotland Yard detectives, currently in Russia as part of an investigation into the death of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in London, will not be allowed to interview a jailed fellow security officer, a penal service spokesman said Tuesday.
- 10:48 05/12/2006
Britain's Embassy in Moscow confirmed Tuesday that its premises are being screened for radioactive contamination as part of an investigation into the poisoning death of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko.
- 19:59 04/12/2006
Detectives from Scotland Yard have arrived in Moscow to investigate the death of former Russian security service agent Alexander Litvinenko, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the airport.
- 19:04 04/12/2006
A former FSB colonel has said he has important evidence on the death of his fellow security officer in London to share with British investigators, his defense lawyer said Monday.
- 20:10 01/12/2006
Pathologists have completed a post mortem examination of the body of ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died November 23 of radiation poisoning, British TV channel Sky News reported Friday.
- 18:47 01/12/2006
Siberian scientists have dismissed the idea that a radioactive isotope allegedly used to poison a Russian ex-FSB officer in the UK could have originated in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Friday.
- 14:43 01/12/2006
Pathologists have begun a postmortem examination on the corpse of ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died November 23 of radiation poisoning, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Friday.
- 12:29 01/12/2006
Britain's civil aviation authorities have allowed a British Airways Boeing-767 passenger jet grounded at a Moscow airport to return to London for radioactive screening, BA said in a news release.
- 20:33 30/11/2006
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.
- 17:13 30/11/2006
Traces of radiation have been discovered at 12 sites in Britain being tested as part of investigations into the death of a Russian ex-FSB officer, the British home secretary said Thursday.
- 15:23 30/11/2006
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.
- 12:58 30/11/2006
British Airways officials in Moscow said Thursday they could not confirm radioactive contamination of a BA plane grounded in the city's Domodedovo Airport until a radiation test is conducted.
- 14:52 29/11/2006
The head of Russia's electricity monopoly and architect of 1990s reforms said the mystery illness of his reformer colleague was linked to the recent killings of an investigative journalist and a former intelligence officer.
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