MOSCOW/LONDON. Nov 20 (Interfax-AVN) - A spokesman for the Russian embassy in London has dismissed as "speculation" several foreign media reports claiming that Russian officials might have been involved in the poisoning of former Russian special services officer Alexander Litvinenko, who resides in Great Britain.
"We have a policy of not commenting on this kind of speculation, which is virtually absurd," the embassy's spokesman Vladislav Novikov told Interfax.
Novikov said the British police were in a better position to answer all questions concerning the situation. "An investigation into the situation is a matter for police," he said.
Some newspapers in Great Britain have been publishing articles since early November, when Litvinenko was allegedly poisoned, offering comments outlining the position of Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky and Oleg Gordiyevsky, a former KGB officer who defected to the West and was granted asylum in Great Britain in the 1980s, Novikov said.