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Russia chief prosecutor rejects suggested Lugovoy-Berezovsky swap with UK

May 30, 2007 11:01:00 AM

Russia's Office of the Prosecutor-General Wednesday dismissed suggestions by a Russian lawmaker that Andrei Lugovoy , currently sought by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) for the poisoning murder of former KGB...

May 22, 2007 08:45:00 AM

The British Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) said Tuesday that there is sufficient evidence to charge Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi with murder in the poisoning death of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko [BBC profile; BBC...

April 23, 2007 03:03:00 PM

The United Kingdom cannot legally continue to provide political asylum to Russian billionaire and alleged coup plotter Boris Berezovsky and refuse to extradite him, the chairman of the Russian State Duma's Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Law...

April 16, 2007 02:29:00 PM

Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika submitted a request to the UK Home Office on Monday to revoke the asylum status of Russian business billionaire Boris Berezovsky . Chaika also repeated previous requests...

April 13, 2007 02:14:00 PM

The Russian government Friday renewed its call for the United Kingdom to extradite Russian business billionaire Boris Berezovsky , who has been charged with plotting a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin . The request for extradition...

January 22, 2007 01:20:00 PM

The office of the Russian Prosecutor General has suspended its investigation into an alleged coup plot by billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky , a lawyer for Berezovsky said Monday. Berezovsky is currently living in London,...

June 2, 2006 10:23:00 AM

Russian Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov unexpectedly quit Friday after Russian President Vladimir Putin recommended to the Russian upper house - the Federation Council - that Ustinov be asked to step down from...

March 3, 2006 03:58:00 AM

Russia's Prosecutor General has requested that the British government extradite business tycoon Boris Berezovsky on charges of plotting a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin . In an interview...

April 14, 2005 08:19:00 AM

Russian prosecutor general Vladimir Ustinov has won a new term in office. Ustinov has recently led the Russian government's legal charge against businessmen Vladimir Gusinsky , Boris Berezovsky and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky...

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