polonium-210

Counter terror police have identified a Russian assassin believed to be connected to the Salisbury poisonings. In a sensational new development the Sunday People can disclose that officers suspect he is a 54-year-old former FSB spy – codename Gordon. The man is thought to use the cover name Mihails ...

... giving the hit squad advance notice of when he would be guaranteed to be at home. Authorities were foiled in the prosecution of the prime suspects in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian agent who was poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium-210 at a London hotel in 2006.

However, Senior Prosecutor Redder's decision of November 6, 2009 states that the analysis of all the evidence obtained by the Hamburg Prosecutor's Office, including the data provided by the UK on the sites that had been identified by the British investigative authorities as contaminated with polonium-210, ...

The standing narrative in the case in Britain is that Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium-210, a rare radioactive substance, by two Russian citizens, Dmitry Kovtun and Andrey Lugovoy. Neither stood trial for the crime, but British officials insist that there was no other credible explanation for Litvinenko's ...

“These Kremlin-connected oligarchs feel free to buy Belgravia, kill dissidents in Piccadilly with Polonium 210, fight each other in the High Court, and hide their children in British boarding schools,” she wrote. Few academics have focused on high-level corruption in Russia, in part because publishing on the ...