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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. 
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.
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. 
Ukraine's parliament said Thursday that the president proposed dismissing the country's top security official. 
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.
Kazakhstan is in talks with Russian energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] on raising its transit charge for Central Asian gas pumped via its territory to Russia by 45%, Kazakh energy minister said Thursday. 
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. 



