Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko[a] (30 August 1962 [2] or 4 December 1962 [3] – 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime. [1][4] A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he advised British intelligence ...

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] .

Alexander Litvinenko (born December 4, 1962, Voronezh, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died November 23, 2006, London, England) was a Russian security agent who investigated domestic organized crime in his role as a member of the KGB and its successor (from …

Litvinenko is a 2022 four-part British television mini-series based on real events, about the 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London. It stars David Tennant as Litvinenko and Margarita Levieva as his wife Marina Litvinenko .

Sep 21, 2021 · Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence officer, died in London weeks after drinking tea that was later found to have been laced with the deadly radioactive compound polonium-210.

Dec 5, 2024 · Litvinenko was unceremoniously transferred to UCLH in Euston with an armed escort and began to be questioned. On 23 November 2006, he was no longer able to speak and his heart stopped twice. He died shortly after 9 pm.

Jan 21, 2016 · Former spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed in November 2006, leading to a clouding of relations between London and Moscow. The 43-year-old had been an officer with the Federal Security Service...

Nov 24, 2021 · November 23 marked the 15th anniversary of Alexander Litvinenko's death. He was a spy with the Russian secret services KGB and the FSB before becoming a British citizen and a whistleblower. His...

Sep 21, 2021 · The European Court of Human Rights found on Tuesday that Russia was responsible for the assassination of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died an agonising death in 2006 after...

Jan 21, 2016 · Ten years ago Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer turned critic of the Kremlin, died after ingesting the radioactive substance polonium-210, in what has been described as “an act of...