Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Murdered

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Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Sergei Magnitsky (and others that perished regarding the Browder claims) gets only mention and other prominent victims are not listed. He spent his youth and most of his adult career being loyal to the authorities in his country, whoever they were: first to the communists, then to Boris Yeltsin’s reformers, and then to the hardline autocracy imposed by Vladimir Putin, Sasha’s former boss at the FSB.

A week before the poisoning, the two suspected murderers, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, first tried to get Litvinenko to ingest the poison. Imagine someone handing you a document classified “top secret”; the anticipation builds as you turn the page.To MI6, MI5 and the Special Operations branch of the London’s Metropolitan Police who presented it to the public as thoroughly investigated and closed. It was only years later – after Putin had refused to extradite the two suspects, invaded both Georgia and Ukraine, and undermined what was left of Russian democracy – that Downing Street agreed to let Owen examine what had happened. Even allowing for the hyperbole, it is clear that Kovtun and Lugovoy do have extensive experience in the investigation business. Alexander Litvinenko asked too many awkward questions and found too many difficult answers - difficult and unnecessarily inconvenient that is, to the all powerful Vladimir Putin and his banditti.

ALEXANDER LITVINENKO (1962-2006) served in the Russian military for more than 20 years achieving the ranks of Lieutenant-Colonel. Luke Harding, an experienced Guardian journalist and the paper’s former Moscow correspondent, has long followed the story. That evening, I was invited to the Emirates soccer stadium in north London to see the London team Arsenal play the Russian champions CSKA Moscow.Recommended to all, particularly to Donald J Trump but perhaps he's already read it and dismissed it as FAKE NEWS? Alexander Litvinenko solved the crime of his murder as he was dying from poisoning and it took the British government another 10 years to confirm it.

Over time, Sasha’s allegations had grown increasingly outrageous, including claims that Putin had regular sexual relations with young boys – all, in retrospect, potential motives for a murder. This includes being heavily involved in the St Petersburg organised crime syndicate that provides drugs to Western countries in Europe. As we will discover, Litvinenko challenged Vladimir Putin in the most bizarre circumstances; Putin rebuffed him, and Sasha felt slighted. Kovtun and Lugovoy came from military backgrounds – their grandfathers had distinguished war records; their fathers served together in the Defence Ministry – so as teenagers in 1983 they had had little trouble getting into the academy. That is why people who try to expose the criminality in Russia and tell theAccording to Lugovoy, it was Litvinenko who was pushing the meeting, while Lugovoy and Kovtun were reluctant, citing a busy schedule of sightseeing, meals and some serious drinking before and after the evening game between Arsenal and their team, CSKA Moscow. But now, as the world reviled Putin as the hidden hand behind Sasha’s murder, Berezovsky was retreating into his shell. At first, I thought I was looking at a cancer patient; the fascinating and horrific truth was soon evident though. Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonizing death in a hospital bed many miles from home; now he would lie in foreign soil, in an airtight casket to preserve his body for a thousand years.