Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Murdered

Product Information

All the proof of Litvinenko's assertions are there, but it needs the skill on a good editor to sort it out into a more readable narrative.

While it is beyond doubt that Assad is a nasty tyrant and that Russian airstrikes have been aimed at the Free Syrian Army as well as more radical jihadist groups, it is also perfectly reasonable to point out that Russia has shown more leadership than the UK and US combined. Further atrocities, including the blowing-up of ordinary apartments, mainly in Moscow, occupied by innocent Russians served as a pretext for the Second Chechen War (1999 to 2000).So good were Harding’s investigative skills, that it prompted break-ins to his Moscow-based apartment – an eerie and grippingly paranoid part of the book. Imagine someone handing you a document classified “top secret”; the anticipation builds as you turn the page. That is why people who try to expose the criminality in Russia and tell the

Like Litvinenko's corpse the report was toxic material requiring 2 body bags, one for the part released to the public; the classified remainder will probably never be unzipped. In a boiling fury Berezovsky had fled to London and appeared to have devoted his life to an obsessive quest for revenge. There is a description of the wealth these oligarchs are protecting, not only in their world-wide properties but also their prominence in the Panama Papers. Unfortunately, the later chapters of the book are almost unreadable as evidence of killing and torture is just piled high, paragraph after paragraph, without a clear form or structure. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.If the authorities had considered his fears of being killed more seriously, possibly he would not have been in the position where he was forced to let his guard down. He examines the role of the police, the courts, and the public enquiry that damned Putin and his cronies so comprehensively.