Abstract:
Alexander Litvinenko was a Russian spy initially working with the KGB and afterwards with FSB. He was given orders to assassinate a Russian business tycoon but he did not follow the order but instead went ahead to publicly expose it among other KGB and FSB secrets. He was then imprisoned for nine months for treason. Upon his release, he was given political asylum in the United Kingdom following several death threats. With the ostensible sense of security in the UK he continued to condemn the then leader of the FSB Vladimir Putin and Kremlin, accusing them of drug trafficking, bombing apartment ...