Alexander Litvinenko is seen lying in his hospital bed in this file photograph taken in London November 20, 2006. Litvinenko died on November 23, 2006 in a London hospital three weeks after he was poisoned in what friends said was a plot orchestrated by the Kremlin.
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FSB Looking Forward to Apology of Britain
Russia’s Federal Security Service, FSB, is expecting Britain to apologize for the accusations brought in time of the probe into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. The apology is needed to resume FSB’s cooperation with Britain’s detectives, said Viktor Komogorov, who heads the FSB Information and Foreign Ties Service, RIA Novosti reported.
“They are blocking all our initiatives, no one does it except them,” Komogorov said, signaling that speaking of any efficient cooperation of FSB and Scotland Yard would be too optimistic today.
“They accuse us of something odd, although completely groundlessly, completely far-fetched,” the official said without specifying the actual charges.
Ex-officer of FSB Alexander Litvinenko, who had been granted political asylum in Britain, died in London November 2006. The cause of his death was poisoning by polonium 210, showed the investigation of Scotland Yard.
According to Britain’s detectives, the key suspect is Russia’s businessman Andrei Lugovoy, who met with Litvinenko on the day of his poisoning. Britain filed an extradition request to Russia, which Moscow rejected referring to the RF constitution.
In the next move, Britain introduced a number of sanctions against Russia, including the deportation of four diplomats. The Kremlin rebuffed by actions of equal extent, closing, amid other things, offices of British Council in St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg.
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