People walk past as British police officers stand guard outside a closed sushi bar, where former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had lunch before he fell sick, in central London, Monday Nov. 27, 2006. Litvinenko, 43, a vociferous critic of the Russian government, died in polonium-210 poisoning last Thursday. This sushi restaurant where he ate before falling ill on Nov. 1 was still being decontaminated.
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Litvinenko Shared Polonium
Yesterday, Britain’s Home Secretary John Reid reported to the House of Commons the progress in investigation of mysterious death of Alexander Litvinenko, former colonel of Russia’s Federal Security Service. Meanwhile, investigators are interrogating witnesses close to the deceased, including political emigrant Boris Berezovsky.
The traces of radioactive polonium-210 that killed Alexander Litvinenko were found in London Itsu Sushi Restaurant, Millennium Hotel and in Litvinenko’s house at Maxwell Hill.
Investigators have interrogated already the close friends of Litvinenko - political emigrant Boris Berezovsky and Alex Goldfarb, chief of the Civil Freedoms Fund. The traces of radiation were discovered in Berezovsky’s office in downtown London - Litvinenko had dropped in there before meeting Andrey Lugovoy at the bar of Millennium Hotel.
Yesterday, Berezovsky said he wouldn’t comment on Litvinenko’s death till Scotland Yard completes its probe. Goldfarb said the investigators had asked him about the dissident record of Alexander Litvinenko.
They were interested in the general political context of the story and in what circumstances Alexander had made his deathbed statement, Goldfarb specified.
Litvinenko was a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. His deathbed statement says the secret services of Russia and Putin in person were behind his death.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 28, 2006
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