[Iris7]

The KGB used poisons by choice. Very expert. The very pure dioxin used on Yuschenko has a very wide non-fatal dose range, with one well publicized living case having ten times Yuschenko's dose. (The dose given Yuschenko was about a gram, took five minutes to calculate that with only an amateur's understanding of digestive processes.) So either the poisoners did not intend for Yuschenko to die, preferring him to be a disfigured political martyr, or, they had no knowledge whatever about the poison they were using, hadn't even done a google search.

Occam's razor plays no favorites.

[Atlantic Friend]

The idea was probably not to poison him in a way where everybody could scream "the KGB poison experts did it !", I suppose.

It reminds me of Ceaucescu, whose secret service used radiation to slowly kill opponents. They died slowly of cancer, end of the problem, less troublesome than a firing squad, and nobody complains too much since the guy dies of "natural causes".

[A. Pole]

Occam's razor plays no favorites.

Oh it does, the modern version:

West good, Russia bad.