November: Reports emerge that Litvinenko has been poisoned with thallium, a chemical element used in the past as a rat poison.

Pair test positive for polonium". BBC. 1 December 2006. Archived from the original on 22 December 2007 . Retrieved 2 December 2006. The men from Moscow were carrying what Kovtun confessed to a friend was “a very expensive poison”. About its properties he knew little. The poison was polonium-210, a rare radioactive isotope, tiny, invisible, undetectable. Ingested, it was fatal. The polonium had originated at a nuclear reactor in the Urals and a production line in the Russian town of Sarov. A secret FSB laboratory, the agency’s “research institute”, then converted it into a dinkily portable weapon. Brown, Colin and Castle, Stephen (24 November 2006). "Cobra meets over fears about assassination squad". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007 . Retrieved 27 November 2006. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Byard, RW; Klitte, A; Gilbert, JD; James, RA (March 2002). "Clinicopathologic features of fatal self-inflicted incised and stab wounds: a 20-year study". The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. 23 (1): 15–8. doi: 10.1097/00000433-200203000-00003. PMID 11953487. S2CID 23260927.Who killed Alexander Litvinenko?". NBC News. 25 February 2007. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020 . Retrieved 12 March 2007. Litvinenko 'poisoned at hotel' ". News24. 11 December 2006. Archived from the original on 22 December 2006 . Retrieved 19 December 2006. Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko. Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB, The Free Press (2007) ISBN 1-4165-5165-4 An investigator of the Russian apartment bombings, Mikhail Trepashkin, wrote in a letter from prison that an FSB team had organised in 2002 to kill Litvinenko. He also reported FSB plans to kill relatives of Litvinenko in Moscow in 2002, although these have not been carried out. [116] [117] State Duma member Sergei Abeltsev commented on 24 November 2006: [118] "The deserved punishment reached the traitor. I am confident that this terrible death will be a serious warning to traitors of all colors, wherever they are located: In Russia, they do not pardon treachery. I would recommend citizen Berezovsky to avoid any food at the commemoration for his accomplice Litvinenko." in Russian). Novaya Gazeta. 30 November 2006. Archived from the original on 12 December 2006 . Retrieved 2 December 2006.

Litvinenko's widow challenges Putin to bring killers to justice". Archived from the original on 31 March 2007 . Retrieved 11 March 2007. Murió Alexander Litvinenko, el ex espía ruso que fue envenenado en Londres". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 24 November 2006 . Retrieved 24 November 2006. [ dead link] Nathwani, Amit C (2016). "Polonium-210 poisoning: a first-hand account". The Lancet. 388 (10049): 1075–1080. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00144-6. PMID 27461439. S2CID 892003. Archived from the original on 4 July 2023 . Retrieved 6 August 2016. December: Mario Scaramella was arrested in Naples on his return from London, on apparently unrelated charges. [160] November: The HPA announces screening of the nurses and physicians who treated Litvinenko. The authorities find traces of a radioactive substance on board British Airways planes.

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Lugovoy and Kovtun were later added tothe so-called Magnitsky sanctions list for human rights violations. The United States placed both men on the listin 2017, and the United Kingdom followed a year later. November 23 markedthe 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 case is probably the first known poisoning of a Kremlin critic abroad since the collapse of the Soviet Union. From among the ranks to battling outside Le Figaro» спросила бывшего секретаря Совета безопасности России Александра Лебедя: возможно ли, что Российское правительство организовало террористические акции против своих граждан? «Я в этом почти уверен» — таков был ответ Лебедя." Source: Павел Хлебников. Крёстный отец Кремля Борис Березовский, или история разграбления России. — 2 изд.. — М.: Детектив-пресс, 2004. — 480 с, страницы 366-367 Minutes Episode "Who Killed Alexander Litvinenko?" ". CBS TV News. 7 January 2007. Archived from the original on 9 January 2007 . Retrieved 7 January 2007. Many publications in Russian media suggested that the death of Litvinenko was connected to Boris Berezovsky. [119] [120]November: Scotland Yard announces that traces of polonium-210 have been found in seven different places in London. Among them, an office of the Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, an avowed opponent of Putin. Gaidar's family and friends refuse to say which hospital he is located in, for fear of his life" (in Russian). Newsru. 30 November 2006. Archived from the original on 6 May 2008 . Retrieved 30 November 2006. Gurin, Charles (27 September 2004). "Roman Tsepov, RIP". Eurasia Daily Monitor. The Jamestown Foundation. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007 . Retrieved 8 December 2006.

The Court ruled that Russia was to pay Litvinenko's widow, the applicant in the case, €100,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage and €22,500 in respect of costs and expenses. It rejected the applicant's claim for "punitive" damages in the amount of €3.5 million, in keeping with its established practice. [1] [90] Possibly related events [ edit ] Litvinenko photo as shooting target (Russia, 2002, 2006) [ edit ] Jul 2007 - Russia officially refuses to extradite Mr Lugovoi, saying its constitution does not allow it

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To start a nuclear war would not be as simple as pushing the button, as the decision involves people and technology, and not everybody is as crazy as Putin. But a wider war that spreads into the Baltic countries would in Putin’s eyes reverse the “catastrophe” of the Soviet Union’s collapse and would be, for him, the best way to be remembered.’ Polonium-210 has a half-life of 138 days and decays to the stable daughter isotope of lead, 206Pb. Therefore, the source is reduced to about one sixteenth of its original radioactivity about 18 months after production. By measuring the proportion of polonium and lead in a sample, one can establish the production date of polonium. The analysis of impurities in the polonium (a kind of "finger print") allows identification of the place of production. [107] The isotope used in killing of Litvinenko has been traced by a British theoretical physics professor Norman Dombey: [100] [5] Litvinenko became a KGB officer in 1986, and two years later, was moved into the Military Counter Intelligence. He was promoted to the Central Staff, and specialised in counter-terrorism and infiltration of organised crime. Six years later, he was promoted to senior operational officer and deputy head of the Seventh Section of the FSB.