{"id":11076,"date":"2014-10-07T06:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=11076"},"modified":"2014-10-07T06:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T10:03:43","slug":"anna-politkovskaya-alexander-litvinenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/07\/anna-politkovskaya-alexander-litvinenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Politkovskaya &#038; Alexander Litvinenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in Moscow on October 7 2006. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/8nppEHGWIl\">pic.twitter.com\/8nppEHGWIl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anders \u00d6stlund &#8211; \u0407 (@andersostlund) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andersostlund\/status\/519381785080524801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (1962 &#8211; 2006) was a fugitive officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime. In November 1998, Litvinenko and several other FSB officers publicly accused their superiors of ordering the assassination of the Russian tycoon and oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko was arrested twice before fleeing to the United Kingdom where he was granted asylum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"220\" height=\"277\" title=\"Alexander_Litvinenko\" alt=\"Alexander_Litvinenko\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/99\/AlexanderLitvinenko.jpg\/220px-AlexanderLitvinenko.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During his time in London, Litvinenko wrote two books, <em>Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within<\/em> and <em>Lubyanka Criminal Group<\/em>, wherein he accused the Russian secret services of staging the Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts in an effort to bring Vladimir Putin to power. He also accused Putin of ordering the murder in October 2006 of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.<\/p>\n<p>On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalised in what was established as a case of poisoning by radioactive polonium-210, resulting in his death on 23 November. A British murder investigation pointed to Andrey Lugovoy, a member of Russia&#8217;s Federal Protective Service, as the prime suspect. The United Kingdom requested the extradition of Lugovoy, but the request was refused.<\/p>\n<p>Extracted from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Litvinenko\" title=\"Wikipedia: Alexander Litvinenko\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in Moscow on October 7 2006. pic.twitter.com\/8nppEHGWIl &mdash; Anders \u00d6stlund &#8211; \u0407 (@andersostlund) October 7, 2014 Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (1962 &#8211; 2006) was a fugitive officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime. In November 1998, Litvinenko and several other FSB officers publicly accused their superiors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/07\/anna-politkovskaya-alexander-litvinenko\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anna Politkovskaya &#038; Alexander Litvinenko&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,33],"tags":[158,202,3614],"class_list":["post-11076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia-former-ussr","category-the-big-picture","category-uk-europe-countries-regions","tag-alexander_litvinenko","tag-anna-politkovskaya","tag-vladimir-putin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anna Politkovskaya &amp; Alexander Litvinenko - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anna Politkovskaya &amp; Alexander Litvinenko - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in Moscow on October 7 2006. pic.twitter.com\/8nppEHGWIl &mdash; Anders \u00d6stlund &#8211; \u0407 (@andersostlund) October 7, 2014 Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (1962 &#8211; 2006) was a fugitive officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime. 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