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17. the challenge is trying to make deaths as innocuous as possible...
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:27 PM
Jan 2017

...for example: "we have no idea how Alexander Litvinenko could have ingested polinium...he could have picked it up ANYWHERE."

The above is not, of course, a direct quote. Just a paraphrasing of the "official" Russian reaction to the suggestion that the Russian security apparatus was responsible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and KGB, who fled from court prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom.

On November 1, 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. He died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome. Litvinenko's allegations about the misdeeds of the FSB and his public deathbed accusations that Russian president Vladimir Putin was behind his unusual malady resulted in worldwide media coverage.

Subsequent investigations by British authorities into the circumstances of Litvinenko's death led to serious diplomatic difficulties between the British and Russian governments. During the 2014–2015 trial the Scotland Yard representative witnessed that "the evidence suggests that the only credible explanation is in one way or another the Russian state is involved in Litvinenko's murder".

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