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True Crime Tidbit Of The Day

From today's saga on the London death of an exiled Georgian tycoon who had ties to Alexander Litvinenko's set:

A spokesman for the Surrey police said that according to initial work by experts, "there was no radioactive material involved" in Patarkatsishvili's death.

I love that this is now one of the first things they check for when an exile from an ex-Soviet country dies in London.

--Eve Fairbanks