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Kaplan Herald
December 3, 2017
The last big poisoning case in Europe was the assassination of Russian double agent Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in the UK. He was poisoned with polonium 210 in his tea, shortly after he accused Vladimir Putin of ordering the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya. It precipitated the ...
The Indian Express
December 2, 2017
The last big poisoning case in Europe was the assassination of Russian double agent Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in the UK. He was poisoned with polonium 210 in his tea, shortly after he accused Vladimir Putin of ordering the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya. It precipitated the ...
BBC News
November 24, 2017
When a Russian dissident was poisoned in London with a highly radioactive substance, the UK government accused the Kremlin of his murder. Alexander Litvinenko had been a colonel in the Russian security services, but claimed the Putin government was corrupt. In November 2006 he suffered an ...
BBC News
November 23, 2017
... radioactive substance, the UK government accused the Kremlin of his murder. Alexander Litvinenko had been a colonel in the Russian security services, but claimed the government of Vladimir Putin was corrupt. In November 2006 he suffered an excruciating death after he was poisoned with Polonium ...
New York Times
November 21, 2017
The Mayak plant was also mentioned in inquiries into the poisoning death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a KGB defector poisoned with radioactive polonium 210 in London in 2006. Norman Dombey, an emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex, told a public inquiry in 2015 that the ...
Socialist Worker
November 18, 2017
Politkovskaya, who bravely reported on Russia's brutal war on Chechnya, was shot dead by a hit squad at her Moscow flat. Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive polonium while eating at the Itsu sushi restaurant in London's Piccadilly Circus. By comparison a propaganda war on Twitter is child's play for ...
Islington Gazette
November 17, 2017
Derek Conlon was poisoned after drinking from Alexander Litvinenko's cup in November 2006. ... “That was when the doctor told me the bad news, about the poisonous levels of polonium-210 in my system.” ... For him, it was a year of blood and urine tests before the polonium-210 eventually left his body.
New York Times
November 15, 2017
... and, 20 years later, the lethal poisoning in London of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, with polonium 210, a rare and highly toxic isotope. With such considerations in mind, the detection of elevated but unexplained levels of ruthenium 106 by monitoring stations in Austria, France, Germany, ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 15, 2017
... the lethal poisoning in London of a former KGB officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, with polonium 210, a rare and highly toxic isotope. With such considerations in mind, the detection of elevated but unexplained levels of ruthenium 106 by monitoring stations in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland ...
Mirror.co.uk
November 14, 2017
Most recently the Kremlin stood accused of the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, apparently using tea laced with radioactive isotope Polonium 210. Labour MP Chris Bryant told the Mirror the tweet “definitely” looked like a threat to the Prime Minister. Both Number 10 and the Foreign ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
November 4, 2017
Polonium-210 was the poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko. There are many other, more recent examples of the dangers of delving into ...
Hampstead and Highgate Express
November 2, 2017
... Alexander Litvinenko, died (he was allegedly murdered by drinking tea laced with Polonium 210, whilst being entertained by the Russian ...
Coast Reporter
October 26, 2017
... ones is that of Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, poisoned by polonium in London before he was ...
La Crosse Tomah Journal
October 25, 2017
... when Russian agents put an alpha source (Polonium-210) in the tea of former KGB operative Alexander Litvinenko in a London hotel bar.
Jewish Policy Center (blog)
September 28, 2017
... crusading Chechnya correspondent shot in her apartment building in Moscow in 2006; Alexander Litvinenko, the spy poisoned with polonium-210 in London ...
BuzzFeed News
June 19, 2017
Litvinenko's assassination was a blatant act of provocation that could not .... The discovery of the polonium in the defector's system came three ...
Express.co.uk
April 15, 2017
POLICE investigating the murder of Alexander Litvinenko were wrongly told they would likely develop cancer from polonium poisoning after a ...
NEWS.com.au
April 15, 2017
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by Russian ... clear polonium 210 made in a Russian nuclear reactor was responsible.
ITV News
April 12, 2017
Litvinenko, a former Russian spy and fierce critic of Putin's regime, was ... after his cup of tea was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210.
The Times
April 8, 2017
Earlier that day Litvinenko, 44, had suffered a cardiac arrest in hospital. He had been given a dose of polonium “more than a million times” the ...
The Sun
January 14, 2017
Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian spy who was killed in ... critic and ex-spy Litvinenko in London using radioactive polonium over a ...
Mirror.co.uk
January 11, 2017
Sources told The Times he worked with former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned with polonium-210 in London in 2006.
Mirror.co.uk
November 24, 2016
A coroner recorded that Dr Puncher, who discovered the amount of polonium inside Litvinenko after he drank poisoned tea in London in 2006, ...
Telegraph.co.uk
January 20, 2016
Polonium-210 is a highly radioactive and extremely toxic material, but to be used as a lethal poison it requires direct contact with a body's inner ...
BBC News
July 28, 2015
Newsnight's Richard Watson tells the inside story of a perplexing murder. Wednesday, 1 November 2006 - a crisp, autumn day in London.
Cayman Compass
December 31, 1999
In 2001, he and co-author Alexander Litvinenko published their ... was poisoned to death in London with radioactive polonium – an act Mr.
WIRED
December 31, 1999
... with a pellet filled with ricin fired from a trick umbrella to the 2006 killing of the spy Alexander Litvinenko with tea laced with polonium-210.
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 17, 2017
In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent living in London, was poisoned and killed. A British public inquiry found two former Russian agents were responsible for carrying out the poisoning with the radioactive isotope Polonium-210 and ...
Tampabay.com
March 16, 2017
Stone claimed that, in late 2016, he was poisoned with polonium, the radioactive material used to kill former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. Trump adviser Roger Stone says he was a victim in Florida hit-and-run, possibly 'deliberate' 03/16/17 ...
The Africa Report
March 13, 2017
... years back, when the South African president suspected that he had been poisoned, he flew to Moscow for treatment - a voyage that might have seemed grimly ironic given Russia's role in the polonium poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander ...
Business Insider UK
March 13, 2017
Litvinenko, a critic of Putin, died in 2006 after being given radioactive Polonium-210 in a cup of tea. Russia has rejected extradition requests for Lugovoy.
CBS News
March 12, 2017
In 2006, Russian-spy-turned-Kremlin-critic Alexander Litvinenko drank tea laced with polonium-210. Two years earlier the Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko had somehow ingested dioxin.
Kankakee Daily Journal
March 11, 2017
To combat threats to the Soviet regime, they will even kill as they did with Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in London when they slipped radioactive polonium-210 in his afternoon tea. If you wish to read about the case see "A Very Expensive ...
Business Insider
March 10, 2017
... saying the idea made him "sick". On Friday, the High Court heard that an advisor to Christian Candy, Steven Smith, was connected to Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko and to the man accused of murdering him with Polonium-210, Andrey Lugovoy.
DIGITALLOOK
March 9, 2017
Details of the transfers to alleged killer Andrey Lugovoy and to Litvinenko, who died in 2006 after swallowing a radioactive substance called Polonium-210, were given during a high court trial. - Guardian. Ninjas, knights and superheroes helped Lego to ...
The Guardian
March 9, 2017
Details of the transfers to alleged killer Andrey Lugovoy and to Litvinenko, who died in 2006 after swallowing a radioactive substance called Polonium-210, were given during a high court trial. Candy and his brother are defending charges that they usedÃÂ ...
The Smoking Gun
March 8, 2017
The "general consensus" of doctors, Stone claimed, was that he was poisoned with polonium or a substance with the characteristics of the radioactive agent (which was famously used to kill Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko). Stone told Jones that "theÃÂ ...
Spectator.co.uk
March 8, 2017
He says he's recovering from poisoning by polonium, a radioactive substance used to kill the Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in London. Litvinenko, he says, had 'a much larger dose, probably done by British intelligence'. But the British ...
The Guardian
March 7, 2017
The stories include claims that Steele met Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian dissident who was murdered in 2006 with a radioactive cup of tea, probably on Putin's orders.
Mic
March 5, 2017
Notably, Stone also made headlines in January after he took to far-right website InfoWars to assert unknown parties had poisoned him with polonium, a highly radioactive substance linked to the assassination of former FSB and KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Toronto Star
March 5, 2017
The Poison: Radioactive polonium-210, believed to be delivered in a tea he drank at a London hotel during a meeting with Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun.
The Marshalltown
March 4, 2017
Kokh, who served as a deputy premier under ex-president Boris Yeltsin, claimed on Facebook that Putin was 'the customer of Nemtsov's murder', as he had done with the London killing of dissident Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned by polonium.
The Independent
March 4, 2017
... keen to stress the visit does not signal a step change in diplomatic relations with Russia, which have become increasingly strained in recent years, particularly since the polonium poisoning of British citizen and former Russian agent Alexander ...
KTOO
March 4, 2017
An ex-KGB officer, Alexander Litvinenko, died in 2006 after drinking what investigators concluded was tea laced with radioactive polonium-210. And many other foes of the Kremlin, including political figures and journalists, have met with violent ends.
MINA
February 26, 2017
A more famous example is the book that Alexander Litvinenko, the former FSB agent who was poisoned with polonium in London, co-authored about the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings.
The National
February 26, 2017
Unsurprisingly, the world has been shocked by the developing story of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, an estranged brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.
My Panhandle
February 26, 2017
Former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium, his tea spiked in a London hotel during a meeting with two former Russian security service men in 2006.
Axios
February 26, 2017
Two cases that are a little clearer: In 2006, former KGB officer and whistleblower Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive polonium. Six years later, whistleblower Alexander Perepilichny died from a toxin while jogging in England, per the ...
NBC Montana
February 25, 2017
Former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium, his tea spiked in a London hotel during a meeting with two former Russian security service men in 2006.
Raw Story
February 24, 2017
Kremlin critic Alexander LITVINENKO is poisoned in London in 2006 with tea containing the rare metal polonium. The radioactive polonium-210 isotope takes three weeks to kill him. The British intelligence services follow the trail that leads to former ...
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