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Russian Tied to Ex-Spy Also Ill From Radiation
The coffin of former Russian domestic spy Alexander Litvinenko, 43, is carried through a downpour to his grave site at Highgate Cemetery in north London.
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In another suspected poisoning case, former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar wrote in the Financial Times on Thursday that he believes someone tried to kill him at a conference in Dublin last month. Gaidar became violently ill there, and his daughter immediately raised the specter of poisoning, though Irish police have found no evidence to support that.
"Most likely . . . some obvious or hidden adversaries of the Russian authorities stand behind the scenes of this event, those who are interested in further radical deterioration of relations between Russia and the west," wrote Gaidar, who now heads a research organization in Moscow.
In London, Litvinenko was buried Thursday at historic Highgate Cemetery, which also includes the grave of Karl Marx, whose writings gave rise to the communist movement. Among those at the grave site was exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky.
The interment followed a memorial service at a central London mosque that was attended by Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen separatist wanted in Russia.
Litvinenko is reported to have converted to Islam on his deathbed. Alex Goldfarb, a friend of the Litvinenko family, said any conversion "is kind of in the eye of the beholder."
He said Zakayev visited Litvinenko in the hospital just before he died, when he was heavily sedated, and believed that the sick man wanted to convert.
Jordan reported from London.
