Tony Halpin,
UK Times Online, reports today that Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has opened an espionage investigation into alleged spying by Alexander Litvinenko and Boris Berezovsky. The investigation is based on statements by accused assassin, Andrei Lugovoy, made on May 2007, claiming that Britain's M16 tried to recruit him (Lugovoy) to gather compromising material on Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that Litvinenko and Berezovsky were employed by M16.
The article also references two Russian newspapers that reported today Britain's implication in the Alexander Litvinenko radioactive polonium-210 poisoning. The tabloid,
Your Day, alleges that M16 could have obtained the polonium-210 through a British company,
REVISS. According to the report, REVISS was founded in 1992 as the Russian English Venture in Isotope Supply Services, a partnership between
Amersham International and two Russian suppliers of radioactive materials. One, the state-owned
Techsnabexport, list polonium-210 on its website of export materials.
Halpin's article also includes a 'chilling warning' to Eduard Limonov and Mikhail Kasyanov from Andrei Lugovoy. He warned them to hire private protection because "I think something is being prepared for them." Mr Kasayanov has indicated plans to run for the Presidency in the March 2008 Russian election, against the Kremlin's candidate. Mr. Limonov heads the banned National Bolshevik Party, and is supporting
The Other Russia campaign, headed by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
The article also references two Russian newspapers that reported today Britain's implication in the Alexander Litvinenko radioactive polonium-210 poisoning. The tabloid, Your Day, alleges that M16 could have obtained the polonium-210 through a British company, REVISS. According to the report, REVISS was founded in 1992 as the Russian English Venture in Isotope Supply Services, a partnership between Amersham International and two Russian suppliers of radioactive materials. One, the state-owned Techsnabexport, list polonium-210 on its website of export materials. 
Halpin's article also includes a 'chilling warning' to Eduard Limonov and Mikhail Kasyanov from Andrei Lugovoy. He warned them to hire private protection because "I think something is being prepared for them." Mr Kasayanov has indicated plans to run for the Presidency in the March 2008 Russian election, against the Kremlin's candidate. Mr. Limonov heads the banned National Bolshevik Party, and is supporting The Other Russia campaign, headed by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
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