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Judge Robert Owen points to a number of reasons why those within the Russian state would have targeted Litvinenko.
These include his disclosures about FSB activity before he left Russia and his campaigning on sensitive issues in the UK, his conclusions state.
They also include his relationship with British intelligence and a "personal dimension" to the antagonism between Litvinenko and Vladimir Putin, the report says.
Singling out then-FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev alongside Mr Putin, Sir Robert wrote: "Taking full account of all the evidence and analysis available to me, I find that the FSB operation to kill Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President Putin."
www.bbc.co.uk...
“It happened as we expected it, no sensation here. The result of the inquiry voiced today just confirms the anti-Russian stance of London, the bias and lack of determination to establish the true cause of Litvinenko’s death,” he told Interfax news agency.
LONDON, January 21. A public inquiry in Britain has named Russian citizens Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun as those who put to death former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. A report of the inquiry was published in London earlier on Thursday.
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Litvinenko who had been an officer of the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, defected to England where he received political asylum. He died in London on November 23, 2006. As an expert study found, he was poisoned with radioactive polonium but the circumstances of his death have not been established to date. The lawyers of the poisoned agent’s widow admitted that before his death Litvinenko had worked for the special services of the United Kingdom (MI-6) and Spain for several years.
Press statement from Russia includes elements skipped by the Brits
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: theultimatebelgianjoke
Press statement from Russia includes elements skipped by the Brits
It is also no secret that Litvinenko had accused Putin of being a paedophile before his death.
The article dated 5 July on the Chechenpress website – seen by the Russian authorities as an anti-Kremlin propaganda tool supporting terrorists – begins by describing an incident involving Putin that took place in June.
Putin was walking in the Kremlin grounds when he stopped to chat some tourists, among them a five year old boy.
The president lifted the boy’s shirt and kissed his stomach.
The incident was covered by the Russian and international media at the time but Litvinenko wrote: "The world public is shocked. Nobody can understand why the Russian president did such a strange thing as kissing the stomach of an unfamiliar small boy."
"The explanation may be found if we look carefully at the so-called 'blank spots' in Putin’s biography."
www.dailymail.co.uk...
Marina Litvinenko, 52, said her husband wrote an article shortly before he died in 2006 in which he questioned why Mr Putin kissed a young boy's stomach under his t-shirt during a tour of the Kremlin.
www.independent.co.uk...
And that's what is supposed to make him a paedophile ?
I read both articles and both read like western spin nonsense.
"The explanation may be found if we look carefully at the so-called 'blank spots' in Putin’s biography."
See Thomas Becket if you don't know what I mean.
originally posted by: gortex
I think Litvinenko's questioning of Putin's actions with the boy is relevant and may have been what turned him from an irritant into an assassination target.