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World Briefing | Europe: Russia and Britain Spar Over Poison Case

[NYT - Europe]

The top prosecutors of Russia and Britain quarreled over a British demand to extradite a former K.G.B. security officer accused of poisoning Alexander V. Litvinenko in London last November. After a meeting of justice officials from the Group of 8 countries in Munich, Russia’s prosecutor general, Yuri Y. Chaika, said the suspect, Andrei K. Lugovoi, could face trial in Russia, provided the British provide “evidence proving Lugovoi’s guilt,” but he reiterated Russia’s refusal to extradite him. The British attorney general, Peter Goldsmith, responded that British justice should decide the matter. “This murder was committed on U.K. soil,” he said in a statement. “The evidence is in the U.K. A U.K. citizen was killed and other people put at risk. And it is therefore right a suspect should face justice in a U.K. court.”.