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Alexander Litvinenko

February 2024

  • Vladimir Putin

    The mysterious, violent and unsolved deaths of Putin’s foes and critics

    Alexei Navalny is latest of Putin’s opponents to have died over course of Russian leader’s nearly 25 years in power

August 2023

  • Flag featuring picture of Prigozhin

    Twenty years of ruthlessness: how Russia has silenced Putin’s opponents

    From poisonings to shootings to falls from windows and now possibly plane crashes, Kremlin has been accused of numerous lethal attacks

December 2022

  • David Tennant as Alexander Litvinenko, in a hospital bed.

    Litvinenko review – this woeful David Tennant drama is nigh-on pointless

  • David Tennant as Alexander Litviinenko in the new ITVX drama.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Litvinenko to Dance Monsters: the seven best shows to stream this week

  • Anatoly Litvinenko

    Russian army ‘came knocking’ to recruit son of slain spy Alexander Litvinenko

  • David Tennant as Alexander Litvinenko

    How the Kremlin tried to conscript me for its war, even though it murdered my father

    Anatoly Litvinenko

June 2022

  • Putin's Russia: dictator syndrome and the rise of a 'mafia state' – video

  • Dmitry Kovtun at a news conference in Moscow in 2015

    Alexander Litvinenko assassination suspect dies of Covid

March 2022

  • Roman Abramovich

    A familiar plot but truth may never be known about latest ‘Russian poisoning’

    Analysis: There is a murky history behind the apparent targeting of Roman Abramovich and two Ukrainian negotiators

October 2021

  • L-R Alexander Litvinenko and Benedict Cumberbatch

    Benedict Cumberbatch to play poisoned Soviet spy in HBO series

    The actor will star in Londongrad as Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned by a radioactive isotope in 2006

September 2021

  • The actor David Tennant photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Suki Dhanda February 2019.

    David Tennant to play poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko

  • Alexander Litvinenko

    Russia responsible for Alexander Litvinenko death, European court rules

July 2021

  • Adrian Dwyer, centre, as Alexandre Litvinenko in The Life and Death of Alexandre Litvinenko at Grange Park Opera.

    The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko review – a heartfelt if flawed new opera

    Former banker Anthony Bolton duly invests and borrows for his opera based on Marina Litvinenko’s account of her husband’s murder

May 2021

  • Alice Levine, one of the hosts of British Scandal.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: British Scandal; Victoria Derbyshire sitting in for Jeremy Vine

    A strange new podcast attempts to mix humour with the murder of Alexander Litvinenko

November 2020

  • Alexander Litvinenko

    Marina Litvinenko submits €3.5m ECHR claim against Russia

    Exclusive: widow seeks punitive damages for 2006 murder and payment of lost income

February 2020

  • Marina Litvinenko

    Opera about Alexander Litvinenko murder to premiere in UK in July

  • MyAnna Buring as Marina Litvinenko in A Very Expensive Poison.

    Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2020: Jeremy Wikeley on A Very Expensive Poison

November 2019

  • Chris Bryant MP

    Why Boris Johnson must publish Russia report

    Letters: A Tory PM is suppressing evidence by the intelligence agencies about the activities of hostile forces, says Richard Norton-Taylor, and Adrian Cosker says there will be a permanent question mark over the validity of recent elections
  • 21st Jan 2016: LONDON : Mrs Marina Litvinenko.(Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    Russian meddling report – dissident's widow goes to law

    Marina Litvinenko, whose dissident husband Alex was murdered in London, 2006, to try to force Boris Johnson’s government to publish document
  • Oliver Bullough

    The toxic relationship between Britain and Russia has to be exposed

    Oliver Bullough
    Russian money is poisoning the UK, yet Boris Johnson continues to suppress a report into this matter, says Oliver Bullough, the author of Moneyland
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