The former head of one of Chechnya’s shadowy puppet “security forces” was gunned down in cold blood in Moscow by “law enforcement officers” who purportedly “were trying to detain him on suspicion of abductions and killings in Chechnya”, Russian officials said.

The clinical condition of a poisoned FSB defector seriously worsened in a London hospital late Saturday, November 18, 2006, according to a report from a Moscow radio station citing Mr Litvinenko’s close associate and compatriot Goldfard from the US.

RAI reports that soil samples from the bomb crater contained twenty times as much radioactivity as samples from the surrounding area.