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England Charges Former Spy in Litvinenko Murder

By Alex Cohen, Gregory Feifer

Published May 22, 2007 at 10:00 AM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

The British government is seeking the extradition of a former KGB agent from Russia.

Andrei Lugovoi is accused of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, also a former KGB agent, in London last year.

So far, the Russian government has refused to turn over Lugovoi to British officials.

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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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