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U.K. Prosecutors Charge Ex-KGB Agent with Murder of Litvinenko

HeadlineMay 22, 2007

And this news in from London: British prosecutors have announced they are charging a former KGB agent in the poisoning death of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. The British government said Andrey Lugovoy met with Litvinenko at a London hotel only hours before Litvinenko became ill with polonium-210 poisoning. Litvinenko was a former spy and prominent critic of the Russian government. The Russian prosecutor-general’s office has announced it will not turn Lugovoy over to Britain to be tried.

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