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Nuclear poison: the deadly trade


The killing of Alexander Litvinenko with polonium 210 created headlines around the world. It also raised disturbing questions about Russian secret agents and a lethal and growing black market in radioactive waste

Sunday November 26, 2006
The Observer

It was hardly the stuff of international espionage. On the day Alexander Litvinenko's was fatally poisoned, the former Russian spy's last public meeting rarely deviated from football, Irish wolfhounds and, befitting his adopted country, the weather.

Around mid-afternoon, Litvinenko met Russian businessmen Dmitry Kovtun and Alexandrei Lugovei - who says that Litvinenko did not drink anything while they were with him. Later Kovtun left the lobby of the Millennium Hotel in London's Grosvenor Square and headed north to watch CSKA Moscow take on Arsenal. Litvinenko went home in the drizzle to Muswell Hill, his trip caught by grainy CCTV, which is still being studied by Scotland Yard last night.

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