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Kremlin Fingered in Litvinenko's Murder.
(From The Moscow Times)
A British security services agent has said the Russian government likely played a part in the 2006 poisoning in London of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
The accusation was made just hours after President Dmitry Medvedev and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met face to face for the first time at the G8 summit in Toyako, Japan.
"We very strongly believe the Litvinenko case to have had some state involvement," the unidentified British security agent, whose face was not shown, said on the BBC Newsnight program, aired Monday night.
British prosecutors have accused former security services officer Andrei Lugovoi of poisoning Litvinenko, another former security officer who had been granted political asylum in Britain, with radioactive polonium-210. Lugovoi, now a member of the State Duma, has denied involvement, and the Russian authorities have refused to comply with Britain's request, citing a constitutional prohibition on handing over its citizens.
The BBC source also said the Federal Security Service had been given a freer rein in its foreign operations under former President Vladimir Putin, who once headed the agency.
The FSB press service refused to comment Tuesday on the BBC report.
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