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Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Murdered

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He was the Guardian’s Moscow correspondent for two years, and the quality of his work can surely only be considered better by the fact that he was expelled from Russia because the Kremlin didn’t like what he had to say about them. Luke Harding served as the Guardian’s Moscow correspondent, and ran into enough trouble there to provide material for his 2011 book, The Mafia State. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Alexander Litvinenko, the former FSB spy who was fatally poisoned in London.

His closest friend, Alex Goldfarb, and his widow, Marina, are the only two people who can tell it all, from firsthand knowledge. He spent his youth and most of his adult career being loyal to the authorities in his country, whoever they were: first to the communists, then to Boris Yeltsin’s reformers, and then to the hardline autocracy imposed by Vladimir Putin, Sasha’s former boss at the FSB.

It doesn’t matter that the planners were careless, with the power of the “country” they control and their wealth, consequences are unlikely. There is a description of the wealth these oligarchs are protecting, not only in their world-wide properties but also their prominence in the Panama Papers. It unveils the first-ever fake news campaign that the FSB created to have former FSB head Vladimir Putin elected as President of Russia. Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006.

There have been other books, most notably Death of a Dissident by Alexander Goldfarb, himself a former Soviet dissident, who was instrumental in smuggling Litvinenko out of Russia in 2000 and, became friends with the escaped Russian once he settled in London; he played a key role in cracking the mystery of the murder before his friend died.It was pure chance that stopped their liberal use of Polonium-210 killing others, or causing a public health emergency. But even Lugovoi, on the surface a much more likely hired killer, having served as a Kremlin bodyguard, appears to have been little more than an oaf. Such an obvious thing was suddenly discovered by a simple old man from Milwaukee, and he’s got a point there.

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