British judge Robert Owen has ordered that an inquest into the 2006 fatal poisoning of a former officer from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Litvinenko, be held in early 2013.
At a pre-inquest hearing in London, it also emerged that the British government has ordered that portions of the police report on Litvinenko's ties with the British MI6 spy agency be kept from the public.
Litvinenko's widow, Marina, requested the inquest.
British police have identified Andrei Lugovoi, a former FSB security agent, as a suspect in the murder.
Russia has refused to extradite Lugovoi to Britain.
Litvinenko, a British citizen and a former Russian spy turned Kremlin critic, died on November 23, 2006, just over three weeks after drinking tea laced with highly radioactive polonium-210 at a London hotel.
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