Weekend Edition Saturday, June 2, 2007 · Russia has said there is no question of extraditing the man accused of poisoning the ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London. This week the suspect, another former KGB officer named Andrei Lugovoi, said that British intelligence was behind the murder.

"I've never feared for my life. But I do fear for the lives of my wife and child," Litvinenko said in Russian. "I also know that even if they kill me, my wife and child, they won't stop. If these people aren't stopped now, this lawlessness will swallow the entire country. Things will be worse than they were under Stalin."

Lugovoi accused Litvinenko of being a British spy who had tried to recruit him to find compromising information about Putin. He said the case has become part of a Western media war against both him and Russia.