Putin's Opponents: Enemies of the People by The Associated Press

Author:The Associated Press [Press, The Associated]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2015-06-15T23:00:00+00:00

Marina Litvinenko, wife of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko speaks during a press conference for the film "Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case," at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, May 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Every time she went to the hospital to see her husband, she could see the toll the poison was taking on his once-healthy body, telling the Sunday Times "each day for him was like 10 years he became older in how he looked."

Litvinenko himself believed he had been targeted, and he and his émigré allies have blamed Putin for the poisoning allegations that have been strongly denied.

"Obviously it was not Putin himself, of course not," Marina Litvinenko told the Mail on Sunday. "But what Putin does around him in Russia makes it possible to kill a British person on British soil. I believe that it could have been the Russian authorities."

Marina Litvinenko has placed her faith in British investigators but said she does not intend to cooperate with Russian authorities, who plan to come to London to probe her husband's death.

"In Russia, it doesn't matter how many people are killed," she said, adding that the life of "only one person can still be very important in England."

Litvinenko's friend Alex Goldfarb accused Russian authorities of trying to obstruct the British probe by preventing key figures Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun from being questioned.

Lugovoi, who met with Litvinenko in a London hotel on the day he believed he was poisoned, was supposed to testify after a team of Scotland Yard officers arrived in Moscow on Tuesday. But the interrogation has been postponed several times, although Lugovoi himself has said he is eager to answer questions.

Kovtun, a business associate of Lugovoi, also met with Litvinenko at the same hotel. He is reportedly being treated in Moscow for symptoms of radiation poisoning.

"It's a clumsy effort to cover up the trace, to prevent British investigators from meeting with two key witnesses," Goldfarb told The Associated Press.

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