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Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s clandestine SVR agency, said that the timing of the latest charges, released simultaneously on Tuesday, made them suspect. “In my view, this is an attempt at a cover up, piling lie on top of lie,” he said. “In light …

Speaking to journalists after the court gave its verdict on Tuesday, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that justices had no substantive evidence to back up the allegations that the Russian state was involved in Litvinenko’s death. “It is unlikely that the ECHR has the powers or technological capabilities to …