A UK-based Russian dissident investigating last month's murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is himself fighting for his life in a London hospital after being poisoned earlier this month.
The attempted assassination of Alexander Litvinenko – a critic of the Kremlin and a former KGB colonel – could further raise tensions in EU-Russian relations, already strained by the Politkovskaya case and Polish protests against Russia trade "blackmail" in recent weeks.
The Litvinen...
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