RIC Litvinenko - 2 years dead

Thirty Russian opposition activists have paid tribute to Russian ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko on the second anniversary of his death of polonium poisoning in London, accusing Russian authorities of having ordered the murder.
Protesters brandished placards reading: "He was poisoned at the order of Russian authorities" and "We call for a trial of the murderers and those who ordered it," as they rallied at Chistye Prudy Boulevard in downtown Moscow and lit candles in Litvinenko's memory.
The rally had been authorised by city authorities, though the police at the site asked one protester to put down a slogan criticising President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Litvinenko, a fierce Kremlin critic, died in a London hospital on November 23, 2006, three weeks after being poisoned with radioactive substance polonium 210 while taking tea at a hotel in the capital's Mayfair district.
His death prompted a crisis in Russo-British ties as Moscow refused to extradite a suspect in the case, former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi, which triggered an expulsion of diplomats from both sides in the summer of 2007.
Earlier Saturday, Lugovoi declared in an interview to the Times that he was ready to cooperate with British justice and could send his friend Dmitry Kovtun, one of the last people to see Litvinenko before his illness, to London for talks with investigators.
Alex Goldfarb, president of the Litvinenko Fund and his widow's spokesman, denounced the interview as a ploy to improve Russia's image.