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Russian human rights lawyer and Kremlin critic 'poisoned with mercury'
Daily Mail OnLine ^ | October 15, 2008 | Peter Allen

Posted on 10/15/2008 9:48:44 AM PDT by sevinufnine

Police in France are investigating the suspected poisoning of a leading Russian human rights lawyer, it emerged today. The attempt to poison Karinna Moskalenko using mercury carries an eerie echo of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, using the radioactive substance polonium-210.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: humanrights; kremlincritic; mercurypoisoning

1 posted on 10/15/2008 9:48:44 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: sevinufnine

Maybe it’s Russia’s version of the Fairness Act????


2 posted on 10/15/2008 9:49:53 AM PDT by sevinufnine (Sevin - "If we do not fight when we know we can win, we'll have to fight when we know we will lose")
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To: sevinufnine

Probably a case of acute putinoma.


3 posted on 10/15/2008 10:08:48 AM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: sevinufnine

>>>The attempt to poison Karinna Moskalenko using mercury carries an eerie echo of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, using the radioactive substance polonium-210.

Wasn’t Victor Yushenko was poisoned too?


4 posted on 10/15/2008 10:31:40 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

What a country!


5 posted on 10/15/2008 11:48:04 AM PDT by Cowgirl
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