It would seem being a former Russia spy leads to a line of business the world finds attractive and welcome. One would wonder why? Could Alexander Litvinenko comrade be muscling in on his business ventures? And everyone said it was Russia that was the culprit. Does Britian actually expect cooperation in extradiction from Russia if they won't cooperate with extradiction to Russia? I won't think so.
Scotland Yard Visits Moscow Hospital
Investigators Finally Question Andrei Lugovoi
Yesterday investigators from the Russian General Prosecutor's office, accompanied by representatives of Britain's Scotland Yard, questioned businessman Andrei Lugovoi in his bed in a Moscow hospital. Mr. Lugovoi is the main witness in the case of the recent fatal poisoning of the Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London. Police in Hamburg, Germany have opened a criminal investigation into the affairs of Mr. Lugovoi's business partner and neighbor in the hospital ward, Dmitry Kovtun, who is accused of illegally possessing radioactive materials. The police speculate that Mr. Kovtun brought polonium-210, the same material used to kill Mr. Litvinenko, from Moscow to Hamburg on October 28, 2006.
Lugovoi and Kovtun are in a special hospital run by the Federal Medico-Biological Agency of Russia. The hospital is completely isolated from the outside world: suffice it to say that the hospital's information center refuses to give any information about patients and maintains that the telephone numbers for the hospital were not even in the phone book until a few years ago. Andrei Lugovoi was questioned in the hospital, where he is undergoing tests whose results will be released on Friday, by investigators from the Russian General Prosecutor's office. The session was attended by representatives of Britain's Scotland Yard who arrived in Moscow on November 6. The investigators questioned Mr. Lugovoi for three hours regarding the circumstances under which he met Alexander Litvinenko, but they were most interested in the final meetings between Lugovoi and Litvinenko in London in October and November of this year....
U.S. Doctor and Daughter Sickened by Poison in Russia (click here)
...“They have positive dynamics, and their condition is improving,” said Dr. Viktor M. Kaznacheyev, the chief physician at the Sklifosovsky Clinic here, said in a telephone interview. The women have been treated at the clinic since falling ill on Feb. 24....
Citing privacy concerns, he declined to discuss further details beyond saying that their symptoms were consistent with thallium poisoning....
...She returned to Russia on Feb. 14 for a vacation and was due back at her office to see patients on Feb. 26, Dr. Arkady Stern, a colleague covering for her at her practice on Santa Monica Boulevard, said by telephone.
The circumstances of the poisonings are unclear, but it appears that Dr. Kovalevsky and her daughter ingested the poison while in Moscow. “She left Los Angeles in perfectly good health,” Dr. Stern said....
Odd.
Film about poisoned Russian spy to premiere at Cannes-1 (click here)
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - A documentary about former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London at the end of last year, will have its premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend, the film director said Wednesday.
Andrei Nekrasov, who was friends with Litvinenko, said "Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case" would be shown at Cannes Saturday, with Litvinenko's widow, Marina, expected to speak at a preview press conference.
French television channel TV5 said the film was a last-minute addition to the festival's program by Cannes Artistic Director Thierry Fremaux, who compared the movie to a "big bang."
Nekrasov said the film was included in the festival's program a month ago, but its screening was officially announced only yesterday due to a "political pressure."
He added that he did not intend to blame anyone for Litvinenko's death, but only wanted to provide a portrait of the former agent during last four years of his life.
On Tuesday, British investigators completed their inquiry into the murder of Litvinenko, who died in London last November after being poisoned with the radioactive element polonium-210.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20070523/65988979.html
