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Litvinenko case linked to Yukos probe - Russian prosecutors

10:13 AM (MSK) December 28, 2006
Some of the former Yukos executives could be involved in the murder of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, Russia's top prosecutors said Wednesday. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office said Leonid Nevzlin, a core shareholder of the bankrupt oil company, who lives in Israel and is on the international wanted list on fraud charges, could have ordered Litvinenko's poisoning with polonium-210.

"We are checking a version that people, who are on the international wanted list for grave crimes, including [former] Yukos co-chairman Leonid Nevzlin, could be behind these crimes," the office said, referring to Litvinenko's murder and an attempt on his business partner Dmitry Kovtun's life.

Litvinenko reportedly investigated Moscow's handling of the Yukos affair before he died in London November 23.

Nevzlin's lawyer said the statement is a new provocation against his client and an attempt to pin as many crimes as possible on him.

"The Prosecutor General's Office finds it easier to pin all crimes on those [Russians] who live abroad," Dmitry Kharitonov said.

Nevzlin, who has Israeli citizenship, has also been charged in Russia with involvement in a number of contract killings, and was put on the international wanted list in July 2004. The businessman denies the charges, and Israel has refused to extradite him to Russia.

Prosecutors said they will soon resume attempts to have those people extradited.


02:15 PM (MSD) July 2, 2009
U.S., Afghan forces launch major operation against Taliban

08:35 AM (MSD) July 2, 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has cancelled plans to visit Moscow with President Barack Obama and will send someone in her place, a State Department official said Wednesday

08:42 AM (MSD) July 1, 2009
Russia's Proton-M rocket has successfully delivered the US Sirius FM-5 communication satellite into orbit

07:57 AM (MSD) June 28, 2009
NATO counts on resumed military cooperation with Russia

09:47 AM (MSD) June 27, 2009

Ahead of Barack Obama’s visit to Moscow in less than two weeks, Washington has dispatched its top-ranking military envoy to Russia to discuss normalization of the countries’ military relations.


08:48 AM (MSD) June 26, 2009

Michael Jackson, the pop star, has died. Earlier, Mr. Jackson, unconscious, had been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital


01:54 PM (MSD) June 24, 2009

The assassination attempt against Ingushetia's President Yunus-bek Yevkurov, committed in Nazran on Monday, was clearly in retaliation for his effort to restore law and order to the republic. It may have been staged by militants, or by corrupt officials, or by both, say most Russian experts and politicians.


01:43 PM (MSD) June 24, 2009

Russia Today TV to cooperate with CNN


01:29 PM (MSD) June 24, 2009

The Ukrainian People May Want a Union State with Russia, but Few Russians Wish to Join the Ukraine


01:17 PM (MSD) June 24, 2009
All parties, including the new Israeli government, have agreed to attend the Middle East peace conference due to be held in Moscow by the end of 2009.

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NATO and Russia on Saturday resumed formal cooperation on broad security threats but failed to bridge major differences over Georgia in their first high-level talks since the war in the Caucasus region. The deal emerged after NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the two sides recognized it was time to crank up joint efforts against Afghan insurgents and drug trafficking, Somali piracy, terrorism and nuclear proliferation.

NATO and Russia on Saturday resumed formal cooperation on broad security threats but failed to bridge major differences over Georgia in their first high-level talks since the war in the Caucasus region. The deal emerged after NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the two sides recognized it was time to crank up joint efforts against Afghan insurgents and drug trafficking, Somali piracy, terrorism and nuclear proliferation.

John Fraher and Joseph Richter

Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said the dollar is in “good shape,” further affirming that there’s no substitute for the world’s reserve currency.

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