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Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime. A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he advised British intelligence and coined the term "mafia state."
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culture · British-naturalised Russian defector (1962–2006) · writer · military personnel · spy · also Alexander Litvinenko, Aleksandr Valterovich Litvinenko, Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko, Litvinenko
Born 4 December 1962 · Died 23 November 2006 · Q87015
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“the center of global terrorism is not in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or the Chechen Republic. The terrorism infection creeps away worldwide from the cabinets of the Lubyanka Square and the Kremlin”
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“[W]hen they tried to find [Abdul the Bloody and Abu Bakar] among the dead terrorists, they weren”
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“You know who they mean when they say”
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“all the bloodiest terrorists of the world”
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“I could see in his eyes that he hated me.”
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Starring Jamael Westman as Alexander Litvinenko
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The final episode containing an interview with Luke Harding
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A Scotland Yard lawyer concluded that "the evidence suggests that the only credible explanation is in one way or another the Russian state is involved in Litvinenko's murder"
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Sergey Dorenko provided the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal with a complete copy of an interview he conducted in April 1998 for ORT, a television station, with Litvinenko and his fellow employees
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Died 2006-11-23.
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Career landmark: poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
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“Trofimov did not exactly say that Prodi was a KGB agent, because the KGB avoids using that word.”
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“You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world, Mr. Putin, will reverberate in your ears for the rest of your life.”
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Litvinenko was convicted in absentia in Russia and given a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence for charges of corruption
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And closed in 2006 with a majority and a minority report, without reaching shared conclusions, and without any concrete evidence given to support the original allegations of KGB ties to Italian politicians contained in t
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Had warned Litvinenko that an FSB unit was assigned to assassinate him
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After the Prodi–KGB scandal broke out in October 1999 due to information about Prodi provided by Vasili Mitrokhin
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And other acts of terrorism in an effort to bring Vladimir Putin to power
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“Go see Putin. Make yourself known. See what a great guy we have installed, with your help.”
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Shows the FSB officers, who were disguised in masks or dark glasses, claim that their bosses had ordered them to kill, kidnap or frame prominent Russian politicians and businesspeople
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Litvinenko was promoted to the FSB Directorate of Analysis and Suppression of Criminal Groups, with the title of senior operational officer and deputy head of the Seventh Section
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“was transferred to Afghanistan, where he had never been before and where, following the recommendation of his Lubyanka chiefs, he at once ... penetrated the milieu of Osama bin Laden and soon became his assistant in Al Qaeda.”
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And in the same year Litvinenko married Marina, a ballroom dancer and fitness instructor, with whom he had a son, Anatoly
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When he took part in investigations into an assassination attempt on the oligarch
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Litvinenko was promoted to the Central Staff of the Federal Counterintelligence Service, specialising in counter-terrorist activities and infiltration of organised crime
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Became an informant when he was recruited by the MVD's KGB counterintelligence section and in 1988, he was officially transferred to the Third Chief Directorate of the KGB, Military Counter Intelligence
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Litvinenko became a platoon commander in the Dzerzhinsky Division of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs
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Litvinenko married Nataliya, an accountant, with whom he had a son, Alexander, and a daughter, Sonia
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Was drafted into the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a Private
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Born 1962-12-04.
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