British agents take over probe of Russian ex-spy's mysterious collapse
LONDON - As clues emerged Tuesday in the case of the Russian ex-spy who was struck down in a British provincial city by a sudden life-threatening ailment, one name cropped up again and again: Alexander Litvinenko.
Litvinenko was the former Russian intelligence officer and outspoken Kremlin critic who died an agonizing death in London in 2006 from poisoning with radioactive polonium-210. A decade later, a British inquiry blamed Russian intelligence for targeting him, with President Vladimir Putin's likely blessing.
British officials strenuously cautioned against any premature casting of blame in the
