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...concern from the Harvard community has been wonderfully sustaining for Jeremy and all the family,” Jane Knowles said in her statement. “No one could ask for more caring colleagues, friends, and students.” Like his peer in Mass. Hall, the British chemist’s return to leadership this year helped to restore calm to a university still recovering from the tumult of the tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers. Knowles previously served as FAS dean from 1991 to 2002. Pilbeam paid tribute to his predecessor at last week?...
...Kremlin and British investigators have, so far, not agreed on much about the case, with Russian investigators suggesting that Litvinenko's murderer is likely to be found among London's fast-growing community of exiled Russian dissidents and expats. Russian human rights activist Oleg Panfilov says he does not expect the Kremlin to change its tune now. "They see the whole thing not as a crime to be resolved, but as a sharp point of their confrontation with the West...
...murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Lugovoi is accused of poisoning Litvinenko, a former KGB operative who became a prominent dissident opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the radioactive metalloid polonium 210. The CPS's move, although welcomed by Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and officially backed by the British government, injected fresh toxin into Russian-U.K. relations already weakened by the affair. British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett told Russia's ambassador in London, Yuri Fedotov, that the U.K. expects "full cooperation." But Russia's own public prosecutor responded that the country's constitution does not permit it to extradite Russian...
...coincidence, the prosecutors made their announcement as Marina Litvinenko was visiting Fedotov, at his invitation, at the Russian embassy to discuss her husband's case and to discuss an open letter she had written to the Russian government. Louise Christian, a prominent British human rights lawyer, who accompanied Mrs. Litvinenko to the meeting, read her notes of the meeting to TIME. She says Fedotov stated that an unfortunate shadow has been cast on the reputation of the Russian government by the case. He said the government is interested in finding the truth and investigating the case properly, but that...
...Unless the Kremlin now serves up a surprise extradition, there is little prospect of a trial in London to test the evidence that led British prosecutors to their move. Ninety percent of the world's polonium 210 comes from a single facility in Russia. Investigators found traces of polonium 210 not only in Britain but also in Hamburg, at locations visited by Lugovoi's associate Dmitri Kovtun, the day before Kovtun and Lugovoi attended a meeting with Litvinenko at London's Millennium Hotel. Kovtun has not been charged...