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...Litvinenko, its potency seems undiminished, contaminating relations between two former imperial powers and pitting the demands of justice against the exigencies of realpolitik. London's request to Moscow on Tuesday to extradite Andrei Lugovoi as chief suspect in Litvinenko's murder drew a response that's increasingly familiar to Kremlin watchers: an abrupt no. There were some obvious reasons for Russian intransigence. The case is a skein of disputed plots and subplots. Lugovoi and one companion - or two, according to some versions - met Litvinenko at a London hotel on Nov. 1. Litvinenko died 22 days later from the invisible toxin...
...Kremlin and British investigators have, so far, not agreed on much about the case, with Russian investigators suggesting that Litvinenko's murderer is likely to be found among London's fast-growing community of exiled Russian dissidents and expats. Russian human rights activist Oleg Panfilov says he does not expect the Kremlin to change its tune now. "They see the whole thing not as a crime to be resolved, but as a sharp point of their confrontation with the West...
...Unless the Kremlin now serves up a surprise extradition, there is little prospect of a trial in London to test the evidence that led British prosecutors to their move. Ninety percent of the world's polonium 210 comes from a single facility in Russia. Investigators found traces of polonium 210 not only in Britain but also in Hamburg, at locations visited by Lugovoi's associate Dmitri Kovtun, the day before Kovtun and Lugovoi attended a meeting with Litvinenko at London's Millennium Hotel. Kovtun has not been charged...
...leverage supply power has made him a top gun at Gazprom. And more important, he who controls Gazpromexport controls Gazprom, says Mikhail Krutikhin, chief analyst for RusEnergy, Russia's authoritative energy think tank. Though Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller is also a Putin man, Medvedev was installed directly by the Kremlin independently of Miller, Krutikhin maintains. Both toe the same line, but the Kremlin runs them separately. Mutual mistrust makes for cooperation, to paraphrase Stalin...
...runs his business the same way he plays his hockey--sharp and concentrated in handling passes--and he scores, says the associate. Medvedev also hits as hard as the Kremlin wants. One such hit shook Sakhalin Energy (SE), operator of the Shell-led Sakhalin II consortium. At $20 billion, it is the world's largest integrated oil-and-gas-export project, with total reserves of some 4 billion bbl. of oil equivalent (BOE) and total project capacity of 395,000 BOE per day, including 9.6 million tons per year of liquefied-natural-gas production. It is also the largest single...