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There is a great deal of intrigue, speculation and facts in the media. In this post, I will try to provide a characterization of this work, research and opinion.

Russian Businessman (Dmitry Kovtum) to Help German Prosecutors in Litvinenko Poisoning Case Mosnews reports that Dmitry Kovtum has indicated a willingness to return to Hamburg for questioning in the Polonium-210 smuggling case. His attorney, Wolfgang Vehlow, added that Kovtun has permanent residency in Germany and considers Hamburg a home.

Heavy-handed Putin Jonathan Strong, American Thinker, writes that President Vladimir Putin increasingly has been imitating his Soviet predecessors of a bygone communist era. Dissidents, spies, "undesirables", and people just in the wrong place at the wrong time frequently "disappeared" in the former Soviet Union. Murder and intimidation remain tactics of security services in the Russian Federation. Particularly since Putin has reigned, power has been consolidated in the presidency and in Moscow.

Litvinenko’s children hit at Hollywood film plan Mark Franchetti and David Leppard, The Times, interviewed Alexander Litvinenko's children and wife from his first marriage. Natalia Litvinenko said, “One’s first motherland is one’s family, Sasha betrayed his family, then the FSB, then his country, then his religion. But this does not change the fact that his death is a terrible tragedy and that we love him deeply.”

Russian Journalist Seeks Asylum in United States The St. Petersburg Times reports about a female Russian journalist who claims to have been poisoned twice, harassed and assaulted. The article references a second Russian journalist, Alexander Kosvintsev, who fled to Ukraine and sought asylum there, last month.

Russian secret servicemen to question some 100 British citizens as part of former FSB officer’s poisoning investigation Axis Information and Analysis, Eurasian Secret Services Review, reports on Alexander Zvyagintsev's request to interview 100+ people in London.