Poloniumed

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A term used by Wall Street Journal Europe editorial ("Shell Gets Poloniumed", Dec.12, 2006, page 13) to illustrate how a major western oil company has been forced to hand Sakhalin-2 project ($20 billion oil and gas project off the Pacific Island of Sakhalin) to the Russian state-owned Gazprom. The editor refers to the controversial killing of Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB agent in London, poisoned with highly radioactive Polonium 210.