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In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko (Jos de Putter, VPRO 2007)

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It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, died in his place of residence London last November, after having been poisoned with a radioactive substance.The search for the possible perpetrators lead to a political difficult situation that reminded us of the dark days of the Cold War.Three years ago Aleksander Litvinenko told his life story to documentary maker Jos De Putter. It is a wild tale full of conspiracies, assassination attempts and imputations. Litvinenko talks about his time with the secret service, about his experience in Chechnya, and in particular about the series of bomb attacks on Russian territory that led to the seizure of power by Vladimir Putin. According to Litvinenko those attacks were the work of the secret service. After Litvinenko's funeral in December 2006, Backlight spoke to Litvinenko's widow. Marina Litvinenko is writing a book about her husband. The book will be published in May 2007 and the film rights have already been sold to Columbia Pictures. In this unique interview, she speaks about how they first met, how they fled to England and she speaks about Aleksander´s death agony.We also see Litvinenko's father Walter, with Chechen leader and Litvinenko's closest friend Akhmed Zakayev and the prominent Russian exile Vladmir Bukovsky, also a friend of Litvinenko.The result is an impressive 55-minute portrait of a former spy whose death brought him worldwide fame.Directors: Jos de Putter and Masja NovikovaVPRO Backlight 2007For more info, please visit: http://www.vpro.nl/programma/t...

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: May 31, 2007 at 11:41 am
Author: VPROinternational

Length: 55:23
Rating: 4.75
Views: 21382

Tags: Bukovsky  chechnya  death  FSB  KGB  litvinenko  murder  putin  Russia  spy  Zakayev  

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KufrAkbar (September 23, 2008 at 7:15 am)
I don't believe that if the Kremlin wanted to kill Litvinenko, they would leave an unmistakable trail of polonium all the way from London to Moscow. Do you? That was a setup.Litvinenko kept some very doubtful company in London.
NiKee18 (September 20, 2008 at 10:26 am)
poor propaganda ! nobody can say who kills the man ! and im sure it was not the kgb :D
kakazinhu20 (September 9, 2008 at 9:43 pm)
R.I.P. Aleksander Litvinenko
tamaradati (September 4, 2008 at 1:24 pm)
posmotrite na cinichnoe lico i viskazanie putina ! litvienko ne lazer ,boje moi,kak jal shto tak ludei kak litvienko i politkovskaia ,fakticheski bolshe net,rossiu praviat bidlo!
heisafraidofspiders (August 24, 2008 at 10:56 am)
the problem is the russian people I see, you just don't want to admit what monster u got there in the head of the government, it's not suprising though, people would admire hitler some time ago just like u now admire putin, but this way or that way, time changes thigns
skwinkle79 (August 13, 2008 at 9:48 pm)
it is sad that this is the destiny of most of the brave people.
RooslanBrovkin (August 4, 2008 at 11:42 pm)
Alex ништяк! Мне какраз это фильм нужен был для посадки Путина под международный уголовный трибунал!
JOscHAou (July 14, 2008 at 1:31 pm)
"in dubito pro reo"and he has no motive, so he's even no suspect.In fact, there are many more reasons against doing that than for doing that.
JOscHAou (July 11, 2008 at 6:10 am)
9:10 : "Then I realised they were just robbing my nations."Fact one: No one can prove that. In dubito pro reo.Fact two: Why did he then go to Beresowsky, who really robbed the nation and who admitted that he tries to start a coup in Russia and to dispossess Putin?Why?Because of the money.And it's possible that Beresowsky murdered him, just to use his death.It makes me angry to see such liars!
JOscHAou (July 11, 2008 at 6:03 am)
Well, it makes no sence.Why should he kill somebody right before meetings, which were then ruined.That means, Russia had no motive.They could have murdered him anytime, why then?Next thing: Why kill him with Polonium?There are two possibilities: It was an accident or someone wanted to make his dead as special as possible.When New-Zealand had big diplomatical problems with Israel because they arrested one of three Mossad-agents, which were killing innocent people, no media told it here!!!!


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