Mr Litvinenko, 43, was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 while drinking
tea at a meeting, allegedly with two Russians - former KGB contacts Andrei
Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun - at the Millennium Hotel in London's Grosvenor
Square in November 2006.
High Court Judge Sir Robert Owen was appointed as an Assistant Deputy Coroner
and will hold a pre-inquest review in public on September 20, the Judicial
Communications Office said.
Sir Robert will give "directions as to the conduct of the inquest" at the
hearing, the JCO spokeswoman said.
Prosecutors named Lugovoy as the main suspect but he was later elected as a
Russian MP and a diplomatic rift developed with Moscow which refused to send
him to the UK for questioning.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said the issue - which he has discussed with
President Vladimir Putin - still stands between Britain and Russia.
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