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Poisoning Investigation Widens in London, Moscow

By Gregory Feifer

Published December 8, 2006 at 3:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

Authorities in both England and Russia are treating the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as a homicide. His death from radiation poisoning last month in London has spurred a number of conspiracy theories.

Now Russian prosecutors are looking into the attempted murder of a man who met Litvinenko in London and also has symptoms of radiation poisoning.

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Gregory Feifer

Gregory Feifer reports for NPR from Moscow, covering Russia's resurgence under President Vladimir Putin and the country's transition to the post-Putin era. He files from other former Soviet republics and across Russia, where he's observed the effects of the country's vast new oil wealth on an increasingly nationalistic society as well as Moscow's rekindling of a new Cold War-style opposition to the West.

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