British investigators say Russian President Vladimir Putin probably personally approved the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian spy-turned-dissident who was exiled in Britain after criticizing Putin and describing him, among other things, as a pedophile.
Retired High Court Judge Robert Owen, who conducted the inquiry, wrote that he was “sure” that two former Russian agents poisoned the 44-year-old at a London hotel with highly radioactive polonium-210.
And Owen wrote that he was also sure that the two men who allegedly poisoned Litvinenko — former KGB and FSB employee Andrei Lugovoi and former Russian army officer Dmitri Kovtun — were acting on behalf …read more
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