Boris Berezkovsky awarded £150,000 in damages after libel case . , '' Berezovsky said in a statement . The Russian oligarch was jailed for life by a Moscow court last year over the death of his former business partner Alexander Litvinenko - who died from radioactive polonium poisoning while drinking tea at London's Millennium Former Russian spy Litvinenko died in 2006 from a massive dose of polonium-210 . Judgment was issued in London because RTR broadcasts to Britain .
Boris Berezkovsky awarded £150,000 in damages after libel case . The Russian oligarch was jailed for life by a Moscow court last year over the death of his former business partner Alexander Litvinenko - who died from radioactive polonium poisoning while drinking tea at London's Millennium Former Russian spy Litvinenko died in 2006 from a massive dose of polonium-210 . Judgment was issued in London because RTR broadcasts to Britain .