Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Murdered

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Alexander Litvinenko died almost a decade ago, yet his poisoning may still prove to be Britain’s murder of the century. The authors describe the Russian apartment bombings as a false flag operation that was guided by the Russian Federal Security Service to justify the Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power. All the same, the British government’s response was to seek to preserve relations with Putin, and to avoid any public accounting of what had occurred.

He will not name any of the companies, but he says at least two of them were ‘well known, serious and respected’. The new 60,000-seat stadium was filling up with expectant Arsenal fans in red and white shirts and scarves, their chants rolling noisily round the banks of spectators. More resplendent in death than ever he was in life, here was Sasha Litvinenko, the boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world’s most feared security service; the man who alleged murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London and took the shilling of Moscow’s avowed enemy. His widow, Marina, still living in the suburban London house Berezovsky had bought for them, was unhappy with the Islamic element.

Updated edition of the book that got former FSB Colonel Alexander Litvinenko killed according to MI6.

Like them, he too had joined the KGB’s Ninth Directorate and the three had served together until they all officially left the service in 1996. Indeed, the subheading of the book is “the definitive story of the murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West. This book adds to the growing body of work that show Russia is a state that comfortably sponsors murder. At first, I thought I was looking at a cancer patient; the fascinating and horrific truth was soon evident though. After continuing further charges (equally dismissed), he escaped from Russia, and lived with his family in Great Britain, where he was granted political asylum in 2001.They seemed to understand each other almost instinctively, an easy sense of partnership and common purpose built on the experience of many years working together in frequently hazardous situations. That's what author William Dunkerley found when commissioned by the International Federation of Journalists to investigate the reportage. Its students were regarded as the chosen few, marked out for powerful careers and nicknamed the ‘Kremlin cadets’. With its strong-arm tactics, tight control over the media, and penetration of all levels of government, the old KGB is back with a vengeance. We must also consider the two men who the author says carried out the poisoning; Andrei Lugovoi and Dimitry Kovtun, who are accused in this book of not only killing a man, but who glibly poured this extremely dangerous substance down various hotel sinks and could possibly have caused a major health disaster (at one point, one of the men even told his young son to shake Litvinenko’s hand, aware that he had just touched the poison).