US Embassy Confirms Two Americans Possibly Poisoned

[brooklynite]

MOSCOW (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday confirmed that two American women have been hospitalized in Moscow for possible thallium poisoning.

An embassy spokesman identified the women as Marina Kovalevsky and her daughter, Yana, but gave no other details. He said they were hoping to return home soon, but it was not immediately clear when they might be able to do so.

The hospital where they have been treated since falling ill on Feb. 24 said they were in moderately serious condition. Moscow's top public health doctor, Nikolai Filatov, was quoted by the RIA-Novosti news agency as saying that thallium poisoning had been confirmed.

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Russian news reports said both women are Soviet-born and emigrated to the United States in 1989, and that they have visited Russia repeatedly since then. The reports say they arrived in Moscow in mid-February to attend a wedding.

http://wcbs880.com/pages/290685.php?contentType=4&contentId=364725

[MaineDem]

1. Interesting. This was first reported over a week ago and just now...

the US embassy is confirming it?

Hmmmmm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2745130

[Donnachaidh]

2. they were watching American Idol?

:shrug:

Or perhaps they need something to distract from Libby? :sarcasm:

[Amused Musings]

3. This is getting insane.

Someone is purging all the enemies on the roster list.

[Eugene]

4. Reuters: U.S. urges Russia to investigate poisoning case

U.S. urges Russia to investigate poisoning case
08 Mar 2007 19:44:24 GMT
Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - The United States urged Moscow on Thursday
to quickly investigate the suspected poisoning in Russia of two U.S. citizens
with thallium, a highly toxic metal that can cause a slow, painful death.

"As the U.S. government we want to ensure that our citizens have answers to the
questions that obviously came up -- how did this happen?," said State Department
spokesman Sean McCormack of the suspected poisoning of the mother and daughter.

"We will be checking in with Russia for progress (on the investigation)," he told
reporters.

The two U.S. citizens, identified by the U.S. embassy in Moscow as Marina and Yana
Kovalevsky, were initially hospitalized in Moscow and returned to Los Angeles on
Wednesday. McCormack said he did not know their condition.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WASHINGTON.htm