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Radioactive poison and international affairs.

Hello again, I'm Owen Alney, and this is To the Point.

From Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Interpol and police in Germany

are now investigating links

to the radioactive poisoning in London

of a former Russian spy.

Meantime, there's growing dispute

about Alexander Litvinenko's deathbed accusation

that Vladimir Putin had a role in his killing.

Putin scoffs, but the incident

has created alarm about what's happened

to Russia since the end of the Cold War. On to the point, we'll hear about internal corruption,

international bullying, and ex-KGB agents running not just the Kremlin but vast private interests

as well. Is Russia going fascist? Should the Soviet Union have been left intact?

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Foundation. Hello again, Warren-Anne, back with To the Point. Links to the murder of a former

Russian spy have now spread from London to Hamburg, not to mention Moscow. On To the Point, we'll

update the investigation and talk about what's happened to Russia since the breakup of the Soviet

Union. On reporter's notebook, despite $90,000 in marked bills

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