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Litvinenko Murder Suspect Halts Mayor Bid

Party says he lacked enough backers for Olympic city race

Mar 24, 09 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - The UK's top suspect in the killing of Alexander Litvinenko has quit the mayoral race in the Russian city set to hold the 2014 Winter Olympics, Reuters reports. “The leadership of the party took a final decision that my candidacy would not be put forward,” Andrei Lugovoy said,... More »

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Alexander Litvinenko • murder • Sochi • mayor • polonium • suspect • election

Litvinenko Murder Suspect to Run for Mayor of Olympic City

Lugovoy doesn't care if Brits skip 2014 Games

Mar 23, 09 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia fought hard to win the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, reports the Los Angeles Times, and now a second battle is heating up: the race for mayor of the Black Sea resort town, which is beginning billions' worth of construction. Among the contenders are a media magnate with a... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • Sochi • mayor • Andrei Lugovoy • 2014 Olympics • Russian elections

KGB Radiation Poisoning Suspect Ready to Talk

Lugovoi offers to meet with UK investigators

Nov 22, 08 9:31 AM CST
(Newser) - A former KGB agent accused of poisoning a Russian dissident in England wants to clear his name, he tells the Times of London. Alexander Lugovoi has offered to send a friend to London to speak with investigators, and may travel to the UK himself if officials pledge not to arrest... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • Andrei Lugovoi • KGB • poison • polonium • assassin

Brits: Russia Played Role in Ex-KGB Agent's London Murder

'Clear indications it
was state action'

Jul 8, 08 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The murder of a former KGB agent in London 2 years ago was carried out with the support of the Russian government, British government sources have told the BBC. There are "very strong indications it was a state action," said one senior official. Alexander Litvinenko, who was mysteriously... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • espionage • KGB • poison • spy • MI5

ANALYSIS

Murder Suspect Unrepentant
in Moscow

Alleged radiation killer, safely out of UK reach, chats with Guardian

May 21, 08 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - To Britain, he’s a wanted man, a murderer responsible for a diplomatic crisis. To Russia, he’s a respected, successful politician. So it was an unrepentant Andrei Lugovoi who sat down with the Guardian’s Luke Harding. The ex-KGB man insists he did not poison dissident Alexander Litvinenko by... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • England • Andrei Lugovoi • British-Russian relations

Litvinenko Wife Defies Brits, Demands Inquiry

Poisoned spy's widow wants to expose Putin's role in his murder

Mar 27, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alexander Litvinenko's widow calls for a public inquiry into the poisoning of the Russian spy in an op-ed for today's Times of London. Both the British foreign secretary and Scotland Yard have sought to dissuade her from petitioning for an inquest, saying it would prejudge a criminal trial against chief... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • United Kingdom • Vladimir Putin • David Miliband • Andrei Lugovoy • British-Russian relations • Marina Litvinenko

Medvedev Warns Against NATO Plans

Russia unhappy
about bid to accept former Soviet states

Mar 25, 08 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev has warned former Soviet states not to join NATO, claiming that their membership would threaten the stability of the region. Georgia and Ukraine are angling to join the military alliance and have received strong support from the US. But in an interview with the Financial Times, Russia's incoming... More »

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Russia • NATO • Alexander Litvinenko • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Ukraine • Dmitry Medvedev • Bucharest

Industrial Spying Charges Deepen Russia-UK Flap

Two with ties to Britain arrested for espionage in Moscow

Mar 20, 08 4:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two brothers, one with ties to a UK-Russia joint oil venture, have been arrested in Moscow and accused of industrial espionage, the BBC reports. Ilya and Alexander Zaslavsky were charged after yesterday's raid on oil giant TNK-BP, but analysts say Russia's interest in the matter goes beyond spying, as the... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • spy • Gazprom • arrest • oil production • British-Russian relations • TNK-BP

UK-Russia Relations Remain Frosty

Brown writes to congratulate Medvedev but offers no invite

Mar 4, 08 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - As Gordon Brown extended only the most cursory congratulations to Dmitry Medvedev yesterday, the frozen diplomatic relations between Russia and Britain seem unlikely to thaw, reports the Times of London. The UK prime minister sent a letter rather than making the usual phone call to a president-elect, and he pointedly... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • United Kingdom • Vladimir Putin • Gordon Brown • Andrei Lugovoi • Kremlin • Dmitry Medvedev • British Council • British-Russian relations

Georgian Exile Died of Natural Causes: Police

Opposition billionaire had feared government was trying to kill him

Feb 14, 08 10:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Tests on a billionaire Georgian opposition leader found dead yesterday in his London-area home show he died of natural causes, the Telegraph reports. Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, said in December he had been the target of two assassination attempts, and his death surprised acquaintances, who said he was in good health,... More »

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Boris Berezovsky • Alexander Litvinenko • United Kingdom • Georgia • Badri Patarkatsishvili

Brits Close Russian Offices Over Brouhaha

'Cold War' intimidation of cultural centers' staff has minister outraged

Jan 17, 08 10:30 AM CST
(Newser) - After days of what Britain called “Soviet-era” intimidation tactics, the British Council today closed its offices in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, the Times reports. Britain had tried to keep the cultural centers going, despite Russian orders to close them, but after staff members were subjected to multiple visits—and... More »

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Russia • diplomacy • Alexander Litvinenko • Britain • British Council

UK Defies Russia in Latest Diplomatic Row

Moscow irate as Brits reopen cultural offices in Russia

Jan 15, 08 4:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Moscow's tit-for-tat diplomatic row with the UK continues to escalate as British officials defied Russian orders to close two cultural offices, the BBC reports. Russia called the reopening of British Council offices in St. Petersburg and the Urals city of Yekaterinburg an "intentional provocation aimed at inflaming tensions,"... More »

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Russia • diplomacy • Alexander Litvinenko • United Kingdom

Russian Art Approved for UK Display

Moscow allows paintings to travel after diplomatic spat, fears of seizure

Jan 10, 08 1:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The Royal Academy in London will scramble to open a major exhibition of Russian-owned art after Russian officials finally granted permission to send the works to the UK, the Times of London reports. The show faced cancellation over Russian concerns that the works would be subject to seizure, a dispute... More »

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Russia • London • Alexander Litvinenko • United Kingdom • art • museum • painting • Matisse • London's Royal Academy

Russia Cancels UK Painting Exhibition

Art reversal is latest salvo in worsening diplomatic tit-for-tat

Dec 19, 07 10:53 AM CST
(Newser) - A major exhibition of Russian-owned art in London was canceled today, the Guardian reports, the latest casualty of cooled relations in the wake of the Alexander Litvinenko affair. More than 100 paintings were to go on exhibition Jan. 26 at London's Royal Academy, but Russian agencies are now refusing the... More »

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Alexander Litvinenko • art • painting • Picasso • Matisse • Cezanne • Communists • London's Royal Academy

Russian Claims He Was Asked to Kill Litvinenko

Warned victim of plot before tea poisoning

Dec 9, 07 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Onetime KGB agent Mikhail Trepashkin has said that a former colleague attempted to recruit him for a state-sponsored plot to kill Kremlin foe Alexander Litvinenko, who died of poisoning in London last year. Trepashkin will detail his allegations before the European human rights court, supporting the case that the Russian... More »

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Russia • London • Alexander Litvinenko • Vladimir Putin • espionage • KGB • Mikhail Trepashkin

Poisoning Suspect Runs
for Parliament to Dodge Jail

He could win immunity for radiation death

Sep 17, 07 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Russian businessman accused of using radioactive polonium-210 to poison a critic of controversial President Vladimir Putin is trying to dodge prosecution by running for parliament, the London Times reports. The Kremlin has already refused to hand Andrei Lugovoi over to British officials, saying it would violate the Russian constitution.... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • United Kingdom • Vladimir Putin • Andrei Lugovoi • poison • Russians

British Jets Intercept 8 Russian 'Bears'

Kremlin's renewed long-range recon flights buzz Britain, Norway

Sep 6, 07 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - British fighter jets intercepted eight Russian recon bombers today as they approached British airspace in the latest long-distance forays to display Vladimir Putin's renewed virility in air power. Authorities said the aircraft did not enter British airspace, the Guardian writes. Norwegian planes monitored the same eight bombers in international airspace... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • Norway • Cold War • Russian military • aircraft • Royal Air Force • Britain • bear

Moscow Boots BBC from Airwaves

Denies any connection with ongoing British diplomatic salvo

Aug 18, 07 3:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Moscow thrust the BBC into the geopolitical limelight yesterday by axing its radio service from Russian airwaves. Media pundits are blaming the decision on rising anger between Moscow and Britain as the head of Russia's BBC called the radio silence “highly irregular and extremely disappointing.” But a Russian... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • BBC • Moscow • Ekho Moskvy • Bolshoye Radio • Radio Leningrad • FM radio • Britain

Brits Win Little EU Support For Russian Battle

Moscow weighs 'targeted' response in clash over spy murder

Jul 18, 07 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain turned to its European allies for support in its diplomatic battle with Russia over a sensational radiation murder in London, but the response has been tepid, the Guardian reports. Only the French expressed support yesterday, as Germany, with powerful economic ties to Russia, suggested that the UK had overreacted,... More »

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Alexander Litvinenko • European Union • Gordon Brown • Andrei Lugovoi • polonium 210 • Gazprom

Britain Expels Russian Diplomats

Four sent home over extradition battle in spy poison death

Jul 17, 07 4:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain has expelled four Russian diplomats from London in retaliation for Moscow's refusal to extradite a suspect in the sensational radiation poisoning of a former KGB spy on British soil. Russia immediately threatened Britain with "the most serious consequences for Russian-British relations," Reuters reports. More »

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