Russian Poisonings: The Case of Alexander Litvinenko (PART 1)
In October 2006, a murder shocked the streets of London. What followed was a radioactive trail all the way to the Kremlin. Alexander Litvinenko astonished the world with his bizarre tale of spies, KGB and assassination by one of the deadliest toxins in the world. The poison of choice by the two Russian killers who were sent to terminate Litvinenko, polonium 210. Alexander Litvinenko in hospital after being poisoned Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was born on 4 December 1962. He was born in the city of Voronezh, Russia. His parents, Walter and Nina Litvinenko, divorced when he was a baby. His father was absent during his childhood, and Alexander mostly grew up with his grandparents in the city of Nalchik, in the North Caucasus region. Sometimes, he would live with his mother in Moscow and an aunt in a town called Morozovsk. Litvinenko enrolled in the army a month before he was due to be called up for national service, at the age of 17 years old. From 1981, for 4 years he at