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Continuing the current policy of aggressive Russian reactions, Moscow warned the British that they must officially disown the statement purportedly made to a BBC-TV journalist that Her Majesty's Foreign Office believes the Russian government was behind the poisoning of the former KGB/FSB officer, Alexander Litvinenko, in London. Apparently what really set the Kremlin's teeth to gnashing was that the source was supposedly a "senior British security official." What happened to the good old Russian technique of deny, deny, deny? Since when is it officially important to Moscow to threaten Whitehall to "downgrade relations" if there isn't a retraction from 10 Downing Street for something sourced by a journalist to an unnamed Brit official? All this because the British insist on seeking to extradite another former KGB stalwart,... [read full story]