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- A public inquiry began on 27 January 2015, and concluded in January 2016 that Litvinenko's murder was carried out by the two suspects and that they were "probably" acting under the direction of the FSB and with the approval of Putin and then FSB director Nikolai Patrushev. In the 2021 case Carter v Russia, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for his death and ordered the country to pay 100,000 euros in damages.
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Alexander Litvinenko was an officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and its predecessor, the KGB, until he left the service and fled the country in late 2000. In 1998, Litvinenko and several other Russian intelligence officers said they had been ordered to kill Boris Berezovsky, a Russian businessman. [3]
After his death, Marina Litvinenko, his widow, accused Moscow of orchestrating the murder. Though she believes the order did not come from Putin himself, she does believe it was done at the behest of the authorities, and announced that she would refuse to provide evidence to any Russian investigation out of fear that it would be misused or ...
Jan 21, 2016 · There has been no direct evidence linking the Kremlin to the killing. Indeed, the inquiry heard Russian claims that Litvinenko was illicitly trading in polonium and may have poisoned himself.
- Jane Croft
Sep 21, 2021 · Unprecedented murder on British soil. The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko broke a number of unwritten rules and taboos. It was an unprecedented use of a radiological weapon - polonium-210 -...
Jan 21, 2016 · A public inquiry into the killing of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has concluded that President Putin probably approved his assassination. But who was he and why did his death cause...
Jan 21, 2016 · A public inquiry into the killing of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has concluded. But who was he and why did his death cause such controversy?
Nov 24, 2021 · Nearly a decade later, in January of 2016, a British judicial inquiry announced its findings. The judge in the case, Robert Owen, said that the murder of the former FSB lieutenant colonel was...
