Russian business tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a friend of murdered former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, attends a funeral service for Litvinenko. Russia's prosecutor general Yury Chaika said he is convinced the U.K. will eventually extradite fugitive businessman Boris Berezovsky and Chechen separatist emissary Akhmed Zakayev.
It would seem no matter the 'exile' the Bush's are always at their side. Odd.
Wanted Russian oligarch arrives in Latvia0
8:09 2005-09-22
Wanted Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky arrived in Latvia Wednesday evening, a spokesperson for Latvian-based Belokon Holding said. He arrived in Riga to meet with Neil Bush, the U.S. president's brother, and other stockholders of his company Ignite, the source said. Latvian Interior Minister Erik Ekabson said earlier that if Berezovsky arrived in Riga, he would be detained and extradited to Russia. The minister made this statement after a meeting with Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office launched a criminal case against Berezovsky in August 2002, accusing him of embezzlement in the VAZ auto manufacturing company, RIA Novosti reports. In September 2004, the tycoon was granted political asylum in Britain, where he has lived since 2000.
What is polonium-210? (click here)
Where would someone obtain polonium-210 from?
Although it occurs naturally in the environment, acquiring enough of it to kill would require individuals with expertise and connections.
It would also need sophisticated lab facilities - and access to a nuclear reactor.
Alternatively, it could have been obtained from a commercial supplier.
Polonium-210 can either be extracted from rocks containing radioactive uranium or separated chemically from the substance radium-226.
Production of polonium from radium-226 would need sophisticated lab facilities because the latter substance produces dangerous levels of penetrating radiation.
Is the public in danger from the traces of polonium-210 found in London, and on the BA flights?
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said monitoring in aircraft, hotels, offices and other venues had shown nothing of public health concern.
It said polonium-210 can only represent a radiation hazard if it is taken into the body, by breathing it in, taking it into the mouth or if it gets into a wound.
After seven workers at the Millennium Hotel's Pine Bar, in London, tested positive for low levels of radioactive polonium-210, the HPA said the risk to the general public was likely to be "very low".
Nevertheless, more than 200 people known to have visited the Pine Bar on the day the bar staff were working - 1 November - are to be offered tests for radiation.
As far as the bar staff were concerned there was "no health risk in the short term and in the long term the risk is judged to be very small on the basis of initial tests", the HPA said.
