Summary
When British prosecutors announced this week that they were ready to level charges in the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence colonel turned British citizen and Kremlin critic, the response from Russia was predictably obstructionist. The Russian government, citing constitutional authority, refused to extradite suspect Andrei Lugovoy, another former Russian intelligence agent who met with Mr. Litvinenko in London the day he was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210.
Several of Mr. Litvinenko's close associates have put the blame for his death squarely on Vladimir Putin, as the murdered former intelligence officer is reported to have done. Included in this group is exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a billionaire who has made public his desire to see the Putin government out of power in Russia. Mr. Berezovsky went so far as to claim that charges against Mr. Lugovoy were effectively charges against Mr. Putin himself.See the full content of this document
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Russian Injustice
In the aftermath of Mr. Litvinenko's death, nearly six months ago, Dmitri ...
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