Podcast appearances and mentions of Alexander Litvinenko

Mark Turnbull has spent thirty-five years as a geopolitical communications strategist, working behind the scenes to shape some of the most consequential political moments of modern times. It's a career that's taken him from the American invasion of Iraq to the final days of apartheid South Africa — from the inner sanctum of a leading KGB defector to the cockpit of Cambridge Analytica.In this episode, Mark talks about the physical dangers and reputational risks of his trade — and the pressure it put on his family. From being ambushed by insurgents in Baghdad and battling Somali warlords, to taking on Putin's propaganda machine and the sting operation that would bring down Trump campaign agency Cambridge Analytica. Along the way, it cast him as a poster boy for data theft and dirty tricks.He reveals the chilling moment when Alexander Litvinenko warned him about the KGB's preferred method of assassination and lifts the lid on the Cambridge Analytica sting operation that made global headlines—explaining how it unfolded, what the media got wrong, and the cost to his professional and personal life. Finally, he reflects generously on his terminal cancer diagnosis and how as a self-proclaimed "incurable optimist" he remains fiercely upbeat about his life and how he continues to lead it, with purpose, resilience and courage.Host: Andy Coulson CWC team: Jane Sankey, Hana Walker-Brown, Bill GriffinWith special thanks to Ioana Barbu and the brilliant people at Global For all PR and guest approaches please contact – podcast@coulsonpartners.com

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in hundreds of print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine, and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities.----------BOOKS:From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author)Publisher: Gibson House ----------LINKS: https://twitter.com/yfelshtinskyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/yuri-felshtinsky-55497940/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Felshtinskyhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/yuri-felshtinsky/----------ARTICLES:https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/03/yuri-felshtinsky-nothing-will-change-in-russia-until-the-security-services-are-dismantled_6122181_4.html----------Easter Pysanky: Silicon Curtain - https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtainCar for Ukraine has joined forces with a group of influencers, creators, and news observers during this special Easter season. In peaceful times, we might gift a basket of pysanky (hand-painted eggs), but now, we aim to deliver a basket of trucks to our warriors.This time, our main focus is on the Seraphims of the 104th Brigade and Chimera of HUR (Main Directorate of Intelligence), highly effective units that: - disrupt enemy logistics - detect and strike command centers - carry out precision operations against high-value enemy targetshttps://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtain----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

This is a bonus episode, from English Learning For Curious Minds.Part 1 was released last Saturday - titled "Vladimir Putin - Russia's Modern Tsrar"Part 3 will be released next Saturday.--------In part two of this three-part mini-series on Putin & Poison, we'll explore the chilling tale of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent poisoned in London with a rare radioactive substance.We'll learn about the bold accusations he made against Vladimir Putin and how his tragic death reveals the extreme lengths to which the Russian state might go to silence its critics.• Alexander Litvinenko's mysterious illness• Discovery of Polonium-210 poisoning• Litvinenko's past as a Russian FSB agent• Litvinenko's public criticism of Vladimir Putin• Meeting with Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun• Polonium-210's rare and lethal nature• The radiation trail leading back to Russia• Litvinenko's deathbed accusation against Putin• UK-Russia tensions following Litvinenko's murder• Impact of Litvinenko's assassination on international relationsTranscript : https://bit.ly/ELFCMLitvinenkoEnglish Learning for Curios Minds website :  https://www.leonardoenglish.com

The widow of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko explains why she feels lessons weren't learned between her husband's assassination and the Salisbury Poisonings. Marina Litvinenko warns that British citizens need to be protected from foreign agents who ‘come to play their games' in the UK and she recalls the moment she heard about the Salisbury nerve agent attack.This episode was made by Marie Lennon, Andy Howard, Tom Ryan & Dan O'Brien. Executive production by Mary Sanders and Naomi Wordley.

Summary Neil Bradbury (Website, LinkedIn) joins Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss the deadly history of poison and espionage. Neil is an author and biochemist.   What You'll Learn Intelligence How different poisons affect the human body  The usage of poisons as a covert assassination method The deaths of defectors Alexander Litvinenko and Georgi Markov The Soviet Union's Lab X and the production and research of poisons on the state level Reflections The double edge of creativity  The necessity for research and experimentation And much, much more … Quotes of the Week “In order to counteract lots of the poisons, you have to know how they work, and you have to be able to develop your own. So, yes, undoubtedly, Western governments are just as actively involved in creating these chemicals and also the antidotes to them.” – Dr. Neil Bradbury. Resources  SURFACE SKIM *Spotlight Resource* A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them, Neil Bradbury (St. Martin's Press, 2022)  *SpyCasts* The Murder of an IRA Spy with Henry Hemming (2024) I Helped Solve the Final Zodiac Killer Cipher with David Oranchak (2024)  The North Korean Defector with Former DPRK Agent Kim, Hyun Woo (2023) Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East vs. West with Calder Walton (2023) DEEPER DIVE Books Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners, B. Hubbard (Welbeck Publishing, 2020) Poison: A History: An Account of the Deadly Art and its Most Infamous Practitioners, J. Davis (Chartwell Books, 2018) The KGB's Poison Factory: From Lenin to Litvinenko, B. Volodarsky (Zenith Press, 2010)  Primary Sources  Press Release on the Poisoning of Alexei Navalny (2020) Update on the Use of Nerve Agent in Salisbury, UK (2018) The Litvinenko Inquiry (2016) Situation Report on Piesteritz (1953) Analysis of Madame Lefarge's Arsenic Trial (1840) *Wildcard Resource* This week's companion song can only be Waterloo Sunset (1967) by The Kinks.  Heralded as one of the most beautiful songs of the swingin' sixties, “Waterloo Sunset” is appropriately incorporated into the title of Neil's chapter on the assassination of Georgi Markov, which took place on London's Waterloo Bridge.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Londen is een walhalla voor de rijke Rus, die zich steeds meer gedraagt als de oude Britse aristocratie. Kinderen op Eton, een landhuis met paarden voor de zomer, bezoekjes aan Wimbledon en Ascott. Sinds de jaren negentig is een steeds groter deel van Londen in Russische handen gekomen. De polonium-moord op Alexander Litvinenko, en de novichok-aanslag op Sergei Skripal hebben de Britten niet wakker geschud: nog altijd is de Russiche invloed op het maatschappelijke leven, en de politiek, onverminderd groot. Een Russische voormalige minister doneerde 2 miljoen pond aan de Conservatieve Partij, en Boris Johnson benoemde zijn vriend Lebedev, zoon van een KGB-agent, voor het leven tot Lord.  Ook in deze aflevering  Traditionele Britse scheldwoorden verdwijnen, tot groot verdriet van Lia.  Over Van Bekhovens Britten In van Bekhovens Britten praten Lia van Bekhoven en Connor Clerx elke week over de grootste nieuwsonderwerpen en de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Van Brexit naar binnenlandse politiek, van de Royals tot de tabloids. Waarom fascineert het VK Nederlanders meer dan zo veel andere Europese landen? Welke rol speelt het vooralsnog Verenigd Koninkrijk in Europa, nu het woord Brexit uit het Britse leven lijkt verbannen, maar de gevolgen van de beslissing om uit de EU te stappen iedere dag duidelijker worden? De Britse monarchie, en daarmee de staat, staat voor grote veranderingen na de dood van Queen Elisabeth en de op handen kroning van haar zoon Charles. De populariteit van het Koningshuis staat op een dieptepunt. Hoe verandert de Britse monarchie onder koning Charles, en welke gevolgen heeft dat voor de Gemenebest? In Van Bekhovens Britten analyseren Lia en Connor een Koninkrijk met tanende welvaart, invloed en macht. De Conservatieve Partij levert al dertien jaar de premier, komt daar na Rishi Sunak een einde aan? Hoe zou het VK er onder Keir Starmer van Labour uitzien? En hoe gaan de ‘gewone' Britten, voor zover die bestaan, daar mee om?  Al deze vragen en meer komen aan bod in Van Bekhovens Britten. Een kritische blik op het Verenigd Koninkrijk, waar het een race tussen Noord-Ierland en Schotland lijkt te worden wie zich het eerst af kan scheiden van het VK. Hoe lang blijft het Koninkrijk verenigd? Na ruim 45 jaar onder de Britten heeft Lia van Bekhoven een unieke kijk op het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Als inwoner, maar zeker geen anglofiel, heeft ze een scherpe blik op het nieuws, de politiek, de monarchie en het dagelijkse leven aan de overkant van de Noordzee. Elke woensdag krijg je een nieuwe podcast over het leven van Van Bekhovens Britten in je podcastapp. Scherpe analyses, diepgang waar op de radio geen tijd voor is en een flinke portie humor. Abonneer en mis geen aflevering. Over Lia Lia van Bekhoven is correspondent Verenigd Koninkrijk voor onder andere BNR Nieuwsradio, VRT, Knack en Elsevier en is regelmatig in talkshows te zien als duider van het nieuws uit het VK. Ze woont sinds 1976 in Londen, en is naast correspondent voor radio, televisie en geschreven media ook auteur van de boeken Mama gaat uit dansen, het erfgoed van Diana, prinses van Wales (1997), Land van de gespleten God, Noord-Ierland en de troubles (2000), In Londen, 9 wandelingen door de Britse hoofdstad (2009) en Klein-Brittannië (2022). Over Connor Connor Clerx is presentator en podcastmaker bij BNR Nieuwsradio. Hij werkt sinds 2017 voor BNR en was voorheen regelmatig te horen in De Ochtendspits, Boekestijn en de Wijk en BNR Breekt. Als podcastmaker werkte hij de afgelopen tijd aan onder andere De Taxi-oorlog, De Kwestie Wolf, Baan door het Brein en Welkom in de AI-Fabriek.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This time we talk about a dude getting poisoned by the KGB.

Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to Alex Hurt, playing Alexander LItvinenko in “Patriots” at the Barrymore Theatre. Alex Hurt as Alexander Litvinenko in Patriots by Peter Morgan, directed by Rupert Goold ©Matthew Murphy “Class Notes” actively covers New York's current theater season on, off, and off-off Broadway. For a transcript read more The post Class Notes: Alex Hurt from “Patriots” appeared first on BroadwayRadio.

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in hundreds of print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine, and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities. ---------- BOOKS: From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023 by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author) Publisher: Gibson House ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/yfelshtinsky https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuri-felshtinsky-55497940/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Felshtinsky https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/yuri-felshtinsky/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/03/yuri-felshtinsky-nothing-will-change-in-russia-until-the-security-services-are-dismantled_6122181_4.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Bogi Ágústsson , Eyrún Magnúsdóttir og Þórunn Elísabet Bogadóttir ræddu örlög þeirra sem hafa sett sig upp á móti Vladimír Pútín Rússlandsforseta. Alexei Navalny hefur bæst í hóp þeirra sem hafa dáið beint eða óbeint vegna andstöðunnar við forsetann. Á Vesturlöndum er litið svo á að Navalny hafi verið myrtur að undirlagi Pútíns. Í hópi þeirra Rússa sem handlangarar Pútíns hafa myrt eru meðal annarra Alexander Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya, Sergei Magnitsky, Boris Nemtsov og Jevgení Prígósjín. Þá ræddu þau í lokin um skýrslu sænsku öryggislögreglunnar SÄPO um ógnanir við Svíþjóð. Þar segir að mest hætta stafi af Rússlandi, Kína og Íran. Charlotte von Essen, yfirmaður SÄPO, sagði að friði væri ógnað og ástandið yrði alvarlegt í fyrirsjáanlegri framtíð. Grænlenska landsstjórnin í gær utanríkis-öryggis- og varnarmálastefnu og þar kemur meðal annars fram að stefnt skuli að aukinni samvinnu við Norður-Ameríku og Ísland. Þetta er stefnumótun til næsta áratugar og að henni standa allir flokkar á þingi nema einn, Naleraq.

Former government minister Tracey Crouch has joined the list of MPs who've said they won't be standing at the next general election. She won the former Labour seat of Chatham and Aylesford in 2010 and has turned it into a healthy majority of more than 18,000 for the Conservatives. A self confessed 'sports nut', in 2015 she attained her dream job as sports minister and oversaw the government's football governance review. In 2018 she resigned in protest at the government's 'unjustifiable' refusal to speed up plans to curb controversial fixed odds betting terminals. Four years ago as the pandemic hit, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and following treatment went on to raise £153,000 for cancer charities. She joins Emma Barnett to talk about her decision to leave politics and her plans for the future. Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was announced dead in a Russian prison last week, has directly accused the Kremlin of poisoning and killing him and has vowed to continue his fight to change Russia. Someone who has been following this story intently is Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Alexander Litvinenko, who exposed corruption in Russia and died in a London hospital in 2006 after ingesting tea which contained radioactive polonium. The European Court of Human Rights found Russia was responsible for the killing of Mr Litvinenko in 2021. Marina joins Emma.Can you have a true friendship or relationship if one of you has more money than the other? Novelist Kiley Reid dominated bestseller lists with her debut, Such A Fun Age, which skewered white liberal guilt. Her new book, Come And Get It, returns to themes of race, class, and above all money. Set on a campus in southern America, it follows students and academics whose behaviour is shaped by money. Kiley joins Emma in studio.Women get more gain from exercise than men. That's the suggestion of a new study of 400,000 people. 140 minutes of moderate exercise a week reduced women's risk of premature death from any cause by 18% compared with being inactive. Men needed 300 minutes of exercise for a similar gain. Joining Emma to discuss is Baz Moffat, former Team GB rower and co-founder of The Well, an organisation that works to challenge the status quo for women in health, fitness and sport.

El disidente ruso Alexei Navalny ha muerto en una prisión de máxima seguridad en el Ártico. Era el enemigo más molesto de Vladimir Putin. Había centrado su lucha en denunciar la corrupción del Kremlin, lo que le había costado una persecución constante, un envenenamiento, la cárcel y ahora la vida. Analizamos la gran lección que nos deja con Xavier Colás, corresponsal de EL MUNDO en Moscú. Además, viajamos a Londres con Carlos Fresneda para hablar de otra de las ‘casualidades' de Putin, Alexander Litvinenko, envenenado allí en 2006 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we look at the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and speak to the youngest peer ever to be appointed to the House of Lords.Laura and Paddy are joined by Marina Litvinenko, the wife of Alexander Litvinenko whose killing in London is suspected to have been carried out by Russian agents in 2006. She discusses how Alexei Navalny's death reminds her of the murder of her husband.When asked about how he died, Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin's spokesman, said "medics must somehow figure this out".And Carmen Smith, soon to become the country's youngest peer at 27 talks about her joining the House of Lords, and how she wants to see it abolished. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O'Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Gemma Roper and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray and the senior news editors are Sam Bonham and Jonathan Aspinwall.

INTRO: The history of Russia after 1917 is traditionally written as the rise of the Communist Party, and its entrenchment in power throughout the 20th century. But is this missing a key piece of the equation? Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov have written a stunning book, that benefits from the trove of new historical sources available from inside the Russian secret services. It retells the familiar story from an entirely new angle – starting with the pivotal role of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the leader of the Communist Secret Service, the Cheka. It then traces the intense and bitter struggles of the Cheka to wrest state control from the Communist party. With the presidency of Vladimir Putin in 1999, Dzerzhinsky's ultimate goal finally came to fruition. It explains why modern Russia, a state without ideology, is the world's only mafia-state programmed to forever extort, pillage and loot it's people and the world. ---------- ABOUT: Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. ---------- LINKS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Terror-Mafia-State-Intelligence/dp/1783342501/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZ4FJFR61BZ1&keywords=popov&qid=1699637170&sprefix=popov%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1 ---------- BOOKS: From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023 by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author) Publisher: Gibson House ----- WATCH NEXT: Denis Zakharov https://youtu.be/HCVPAJrAoyI Vlad Vexler https://youtu.be/RDQ92lLLwyM Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y Boris Bondarev https://youtu.be/-fP-vggvDXo Konstantin von Eggert MBE (Hon) https://youtu.be/Rj6pTGVlG1E ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

With so many unanswered questions, different theories about what exactly happened to young Welshman Gareth Williams in summer 2010 remain rife. One suggestion is that he was assassinated by a rogue state. A former KGB intelligence officer, an ex-Government Minister and the wife of murdered dissident Alexander Litvinenko all suspect Russian involvement. But would the Kremlin really go to such lengths?Death of a Codebreaker is presented by Dr Sian Williams with contributions in Episode 4 from from Dyfan Rees, Ashley Byrne and Wayne Wright. Producers: Ashley Byrne, James Pepper and Wayne Wright The Executive Producer is Ashley Byrne. Research by Wayne Wright, Ashley Byrne and James Pepper. Music by Robin Forrest The Sound editor: Kev Bailey Death of a Codebreaker is an MIM Production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio Wales.

Dr Sian Williams leads a team charting the story of the Welsh codebreaker whose naked and decomposing body was found inside a bag in his bath at his flat in Central London in August 2010.Mystery still surrounds how and why Gareth Williams, from Anglesey, died - not least how he ended up inside the North Face sports bag in the first place. There were no fingerprints on the bag, on the padlock or in the bath.Gareth's death continues to baffle police with speculation as to the cause ranging from a sex game gone wrong to involvement of a rogue state, possibly Russia.The coroner Fiona Wilcox, who led the inquest into the 31 year old's death, gave a narrative verdict, concluding it was probable Gareth had been unlawfully killed but because there was no clear evidence she couldn't deliver an official verdict of unlawful killing.Gareth Williams normally worked for GCHQ in Cheltenham but had been seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service at MI6 in London. It's still unknown what the exact nature of his work was and evidence by the secret intelligence service at his inquest was minimal.Gareth Williams had not been seen by family or work colleagues for over a week when his body was found and it was only when his sister raised the alarm that MI6 contacted police who carried out a ‘welfare call' at his home in Pimlico. When officers entered his flat they found the heating was on full, (which was unusual for the middle of August) and this may have caused issues for pathologists investigating exactly how Gareth died.In this programme Sian and the team dig deeper into the story.We hear conflicting evidence from experts who attempted up to 300 times to lock themselves inside a North Face sports bag.We delve into some of the evidence not reported widely from the inquest into Gareth's death, we hear more about what his work at MI6 may have actually entailed and we find out some more about Gareth the child genius who went on to be recruited by the intelligence services because of his brilliant mind as a mathematician and codebreaker.Experts give their views on what may have happened to him. We delve some more into the various theories including possible Russian involvement - and we ask whether 13 years on, with notable improvements in DNA gathering procedures, if it's time to re-open the investigation into his death and to finally bring closure for the family and justice for Gareth.Among those Sian and the team meet over the series – Marina Litvinenko, widow of murdered Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko and former KGB agents as well as people who have worked for the British intelligence services and senior police officers who oversaw the enquiry into Gareth's death.Death of A Codebreaker is presented by Sian Williams with contributions from Dyfan Rees, Tracy Cardwell, Ashley Byrne, Wayne Wright and Lewis Allsopp. The series is produced by Wayne Wright. Executive Producer is Ashley Byrne Research by Wayne Wright, Ashley Byrne, Maya Mitter, Kurt Brookes, Andrew Edwards and Tracy Cardwell. Music by Robin Forrest Sound editing by Mark Burrows Death of a Code Breaker is an MIM Production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio Wales.

Renowned for tackling big themes on stage, Lucy Prebble made her name as a playwright in her mid-twenties when she wrote the hugely successful Enron. The play, which premiered in 2009 and explored the collapse of the American energy corporation eight years earlier, transferred to the West End and also played on Broadway. In 2019 she premiered A Very Expensive Poison which dramatized the assassination in London of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Lucy Prebble has also written for television, she devised and wrote the black comedy series I Hate Suzie with its star Billie Piper. She was also one of the writers of the Emmy, Golden Globes and BAFTA winning Succession, about the ageing media mogul deciding if and how to hand control of his corporate empire to his children. In conversation with John Wilson, Lucy recalls how an early job as an assistant to Nicholas Hytner in his first year as Director of the National Theatre helped her to begin her career as a writer. She reveals how Billy Bragg's song Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards is a continued inspiration in her work as a playwright and the influence that Bob Fosse's 1979 film All That Jazz had on her TV series I Hate Suzie. She also discusses being part of the team that wrote the hit TV series Succession and what effect the experience has had on her and her work. Producer: Edwina Pitman

My special guest tonight is Dr. Harry Milman, here to discuss his second installment of a series of books detailing the death of the famous and, this time, the infamous.  Get his book Forensics Ii: The Science Behind the Deaths of Famous and Infamous People on Amazon. George Washington, the former first president of the United States, lay in his bed suffering from a high fever, a raw throat, and labored breathing. His three physicians milled around his bed, treating Washington with blisters of cantharides, tartar emetic, and bloodletting, removing nearly 40 percent of his total blood volume and causing excruciating pain. When Washington was finally relieved of his misery and died, the three doctors could not agree on what caused his death. Forensics II: The Science Behind the Deaths of Famous and Infamous People reads like a mystery novel, presenting biographical and scientific information that helps readers understand how medical examiners-coroners utilized forensic analysis to determine the causes and manners of death of thirty-six famous and infamous people, including Napoleon Bonaparte, a French military leader, and politician; Charles Whitman, the University of Texas tower shooter; Bruce Lee, an actor, and martial artist; Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana; Jim Jones, a key figure in the Jonestown massacre; Aretha Franklin, a singer-songwriter; Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service; Jeffrey Epstein, a financier and convicted sex offender; and many more. The book is based on a review of publicly available autopsy and toxicology reports, published lay articles, and the scientific literature. Of the deaths reviewed, 39 percent were due to natural causes, 19 percent were accidental, and 6 (17 percent) were suicides. The remaining deaths comprise three cases each of homicide and justifiable homicide by police, one case of court-mandated execution, and three cases in which the manner of death was undetermined.   About the Author Harry A. Milman, Ph.D., is a consulting pharmacologist, toxicologist, and expert witness with over forty years of experience at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Health, and the US Public Health Service. Dr. Milman has assisted in over three hundred civil, criminal, and high-profile legal cases and testified at trials and depositions. He authored over seventy scientific articles and has edited five science books, including the highly acclaimed Handbook of Carcinogen Testing. Often quoted in newspapers and magazines, Dr. Milman appeared as a toxicology expert on the History Channel, the Oxygen Channel, TV and radio news programs, and true-crime television shows. Dr. Milman is the author of FORENSICS: The Science Behind the Deaths of Famous People and two novels—A Death at Camp David, winner of the Best Mystery Novel in the 2018 Book Talk Radio Club Awards, and SOYUZ: The Final Flight, a finalist for Best Second Novel in the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel in the 2018 Book Talk Radio Club Awards.   It's super easy to access our archives!   Here's how:   iPhone Users: Access Mysterious Radio from Apple Podcasts and become a subscriber there, or if you want access to even more exclusive content, join us on Patreon.   Android Users: Enjoy over 800 exclusive member-only posts to include ad-free episodes, case files, and more when you join us on Patreon.    Please copy and Paste our link in a text message to all your family members and friends! We'll love you forever! (Check out Mysterious Radio!)  

Today's podcast:  The cost issue surrounding the continued pursuit of Paul Bernardo's presence and movement within the Canadian prison system - Meanwhile the Parole Board of Canada refused to disclose whether it had the composite transcript of the Bernardo videotapes based on Bernardo's privacy rights (upheld by a court decision as the Government of Canada fought to maintain Bernardo's privacy rights) until 5pm the day before the hearing. This proved to be "hell" for the French and Mahaffy families, according to the families lawyer Tim Danson. - Meanwhile the federal government wanted the families to pay over $19,000 in court costs for the government lawyers. Justice Glennys McVeigh sided with the government and ordered the families to pay $4,000 in costs. - The government would walk back the cost order and the battle continues....because Paul Bernardo "has his privacy rights."   Meanwhile a private citizen started a Go Fund Me page to raise money for the French and Mahaffy families to pay the legal bills from Tim Danson incurred over the years he has represented them. Danson spoke with me about this and assured his work for the families always has been and always will be pro bono. Guest: Tim Danson. Lawyer for the French and Mahaffy families.    The coup attempt in Russia by Yevgeny Prighozin and his mercenary Wagner Group which ended as quickly as it began with Prighozin moving to Belarus and charges against him being dropped. Charges also dropped against Wagner Group fighters. How badly has this weakened Putin in Russia? Guest: Yuri Felshtinsky. Russian/American historian. Author of Blowing Up Russia. Book banned in Russia and Felshtinksy's co-author Alexander Litvinenko died after being poisoned in London with radiation substance. British inquiry concluded the order to kill Litvinenko originated in the Kremlin.  Friday was the anniversary (June 23, 1985) of Canada's deadliest terror attack as Air India Flight 182 was bombed on its journey from Vancouver to Delhi, via Montreal and London. 329 passengers were killed, 280 were Canadian. 38 years later the Angus Reid Institute polled Canadians on how much we know about this terrorist attack. 90% of Canadians confess to having little (61%) or no (28%) knowledge and 58% of Canadians under 35 have never heard of the attack.  Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Former premier of British Columbia and federal Liberal minister of health. He, his wife and 3 sons had reserved seats on Flight 182 and canceled a few days before departure. Dosanjh wrote about the attack and what led to it in his autobiography JOURNEY AFTER MIDNIGHT: India, Canada and the Road Beyond.  RCMP communication with Democracy Watch confirming it had misled DW by sending a letter dated May 25, 2023 saying it is currently investigating the allegation the Prime Minister and other members of the Trudeau cabinet obstructed the SNC-Lavalin prosecution.  Subsequently the RCMP issued statements that the investigation ended in January of '23, contradicting its own letter to Democracy Watch sent May 25 of this year.  Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder of Democracy Watch.   ---------------------------------------------  Host/Content Producer – Roy Green  Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig  Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor  If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast!  https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The coup attempt in Russia by Yevgeny Prighozin and his mercenary Wagner Group which ended as quickly as it began with Prighozin moving to Belarus and charges against him being dropped. Charges also dropped against Wagner Group fighters. How badly has this weakened Putin in Russia? Guest: Yuri Felshtinsky. Russian/American historian. Author of Blowing Up Russia. Book banned in Russia and Felshtinksy's co-author Alexander Litvinenko died after being poisoned in London with radiation substance. British inquiry concluded the order to kill Litvinenko originated in the Kremlin.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Was Vladimir Putin born in Russia or in Georgia? Who is his biological mother – Vera Putina or Maria Ivanova Putina? Putin's autobiography says he was born in 1952 in Leningrad. But, there is an alternative, more credible story we tell today.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/DUBIOUS today to get 10% off your first month of therapy. The unofficial version of events places Putin's early years in Metekhi, Georgia and identifies his biological mother as a woman named Vera. In the Kremlin version, Putin's grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. If you like our content and want to support Dubious, please become a patron to get our episodes ad-free. Putin's mother was a factory worker and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. Early in World War II, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD – which later became KGB, now FSB. He was severely wounded in 1942. Vladimir Spiridonovich and Maria Ivanovna, his parents, had two more children, two boys but they both died before Putin was born: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany forces in WW2. In her memoir, Hard Choices, she shares a story Putin told her about this time in his life. This story does not fit the version Putin tells in his official autobiography. The then U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said he too had never heard it before. Putin also tells another story: one of his great teachers in life was a rat. 1 Putin's path was influenced by a movie called The Shield and The Sword - a 1968 Soviet spy series. It inspired him to join the KGB. Putin was impressed that “One man's effort could achieve what whole armies could not. One spy could decide the fate of thousands of people.” 2 There is an unofficial version of Putin's early years: Putin was actually born in Georgia. A woman named Vera who lives in Metheki, near Gori, in Georgia has been saying since 1999 that she is Putin's birthmother. Putina married a Georgian soldier Giorgi Osepahvili. In December 1960, the ultimatum from her husband, Putina travelled with "Vova" back to Ochyor, in Russia and she left the boy with her parents and returned to Georgia. Vera believes that the Leningrad "parents" referred to in Putin's official biography adopted HER son from his grandparents, so from her parents. The story was corroborated by Shura Gabinashvili, a former Russian teacher at the village school in Metekhi. She says Putin was her student and that she has received death threats about making these claims public. She remembers Putin by the same pet name Vera, his alleged biological mother uses: "Vova." 3 In this episode we also discuss Alexander Litvinenko, polonium 210, the suspicious death of BOTH Putin's Leningrad parents of cancer, AT THE SAME TIME. We also comment on the very peculiar deaths of Artyom Borovik who died in a plane crash coinciding with the documentary he was making about Vera and Putin's childhood & Italian journalist Antonio Russo who was also interested in Vera's story before was murdered while investigating Putin's war crimes in Chechnya. 1. Alex Kliment. Putin, Ukraine, and the Rat Story. Gzero. March 2022. ⇤2. Damien Sharkov. Straight Outta Leningrad: Putin Says Streetfights Taught Him How to Tackle ISIS. Newsweek. October 2015. ⇤3. Kate Weinberg. Could This Woman be Vladimir Putin's Real Mother?. Telegraph. December 2008. ⇤

Day by day Russia seems to be turning back the clock to darker times. Pick the worst periods of Russian history and you will find echoes of them in the present day – whether that be the economic and mafia chaos of the 90s, the privations and exceptionalism of the Soviet period, nuclear threat of the Cold War era, Stalin's repressions and purges, the slaughter of WWII, poverty of the 19th century or unrelenting imperial expansionism of Ivan the Terrible's times. In its political mythology and with its weaponed education system, Russia is a country whose focus is on the past more than the future, and daily reminds us why looking forward can sometimes be healthier than looking backwards. ---------- SPEAKER: Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities. More recently he has warned of the risk of a nuclear strike from the territory of Belarus, and it's the topic of strategic nuclear blackmail that we'll be discussing today. ---------- BOOKS: Blowing Up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and the Threat of World War III (2022) The Putin Corporation: The Story of Russia's Secret Takeover (2012) Lenin and His Comrades (2010) The KGB Plays Chess: The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown (2010) The age of assassins (2008) Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin (2008) Blowing Up Russia (2002)

Global News: Putin says Russia will station nuclear weapons in Belarus. Putin claims this is in response to continued military support to Ukraine during the ongoing conflict. Speaking with former Ukrainian Ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba yesterday on the subject, he seems to believe this is just for show. What level of attack on Ukraine is Russia capable of during this time? Guest: Yuri Felshtinsky. Russian American historian. Co-Author of Blowing Up Russia (book banned in Russia). Felshtinsky's co-author Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian FSB agent, murdered in London by use of polonium on orders from the Kremlin. Conclusion drawn multi-year British inquiry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: The Carbon tax will have an increase of 23% to $65 per tonne happening on April 1st, will more increases be coming? Guest: Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy An Op-ed in the Toronto Star claims that Cdn Men dislike Trudeau more than Cdn women. What does this mean for the Prime Minister? Guest: David Coletto. Chief Executive at Abacus Data. Global News: Putin says Russia will station nuclear weapons in Belarus. Putin claims this is in response to continued military support to Ukraine during the ongoing conflict. Speaking with former Ukrainian Ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba yesterday on the subject, he seems to believe this is just for show. What level of attack on Ukraine is Russia capable of during this time? Guest: Yuri Felshtinsky. Russian American historian. Co-Author of Blowing Up Russia (book banned in Russia). Felshtinsky's co-author Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian FSB agent, murdered in London by use of polonium on orders from the Kremlin. Conclusion drawn multi-year British inquiry. Our friend Prof Christian Leuprecht has released a new book titled “Polar Cousins”. A brief description on Google books: Geopolitics and climate change now have immediate consequences for national and international security interests across the Arctic and Antarctic. The world's polar regions are contested and strategically central to geopolitical rivalry. At the same time, rapid political, social, and environmental change presents unprecedented challenges for governance, environmental protection, and maritime operations in the regions. Guest: Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Munk Snr. Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Regularly called on as expert witness by parliamentary committees. Author: Polar Cousins. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union. It emerged as a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, and was nominally attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency of carrying out internal security, foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, and secret-police functions. Did it morph into the current FSB, or is that a different beast? Did any of the culture, traditional and methods of the KGB pass to its descendant agency and operatives? What can we know for sure of this brutal and secretive organ of power, and what relation does it have to Putin and his kleptocratic regime? Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities. ---------- BOOKS: Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III (2022) Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Murdered (2019) The Putin Corporation: The Story of Russia's Secret Takeover (2012) Lenin And His Comrades: The Bolsheviks Take Over Russia 1917–1924 (2010) ----------

In the 2000s, London became home to the Russian super-rich. Vast wealth was stripped from Russia by the Oligarchs, and flaunted in London through grandiose properties, ferocious legal disputes, private jets, mega-yachts, and ubiquitous bodyguards. Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism, and London was the destination of choice to spend and protect their wealth. But the shocking killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London with a radio-active element Polonium, and of Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain's richest Russians, sent shockwaves through the Russian community in London. Today I'm speaking with Mark Hollingsworth about how Russia's wealth was harvested and brought to London, and how the UK's institutions and legal infrastructure facilitated the laundering of these vast fortunes, many of dubious provenance. Mark Hollingsworth is an investigative journalist and author of 10 books, notably ‘Londongrad – From Russia with Cash, the Inside Story of the Oligarchs' – published in 2010. He has also written biographies of Mark Thatcher and Tim Bell and acclaimed studies on MI5 and the Saudi Royal Family. He started his career working for Granada TV's award-winning ‘World in Action' programme and now contributes regularly to ‘The Times', ‘Mail on Sunday', ‘The Guardian' and ‘The Sunday Times'. His most recent articles about Russia are published in the Spectator. He is currently writing a history of the KGB.

Marina Litvinenko has seen a lot in her life. In 2006, her husband, the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, was assassinated by radioactive poisoning by agents of the Russian government. Her unrelenting quest for justice and answers has led through the courts, the media, and the highest levels of diplomacy - and yet, after all this time, there were people in the UK who still did not heed her warnings about dealing with Vladimir Putin before last year's invasion of Ukraine. In this conversation with Robert Amsterdam, Marina discusses her campaign, views and insights on the conflict in Ukraine, and how the West should deal with punishing those around Putin (while avoiding isolation of independent Russian citizens).

Alexander Litvinenko ble myrdet med en kopp radioaktiv te av sin gamle arbeidsgiver KGB. Han var Putinkritiker, britisk statsborger og han jobbet for den britiske etterretningstjenesten. Allikevel klarte de å forgifte han på polonium på en måte som satt halve london i fare. KonspirasjonsPodden tar en titt

I love creating this podcast for many reasons but chief among them is the opportunity it affords me to speak to people with whom I might not necessarily cross paths in my every day. This has never been more true than with Jim Down, a consultant in critical care and anaesthesia at University College London Hospitals who was frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic, attended to former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko when he was poisoned with Polonium-210 in 2006 and was one of the first on the scene of the Hatfield train disaster.This show is about hearing how my guests have navigated the more challenging parts of life and come out the other side, and Jim's stories and learnings are extraordinary. His openness about his own mental health and the challenges he's had to overcome as a result of the cumulative stress of life in hospital wards, intensive care units and high-stress situations is levelling, to say the least.Jim is also extremely open, warm and thoughtful, and as you'd perhaps expect from someone who has to make life-or-death decisions, shows real compassion. Even as someone who saw the impact of the Covid-19 virus, he makes efforts to understand the people who now say it was a hoax, which feels extraordinarily magnanimous when you hear what he saw, first-hand in 2020.Life in the Balance and Life Support are available to order now.To join the closed Facebook group for the podcast click here >> The Emma Guns Show Forum.To follow me on social media >> Twitter | Instagram.Watch clips from the podcast >> Youtube | The Emma Guns ShowSign up for my newsletter here >> Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do Rory, Mark Zuckerberg and Saif Gaddafi all have in common? Will we see a Labour revival in Scotland? Why haven't the CPS followed up over lockdown parties in Downing Street? Rory and Alastair answer these questions and discuss the role social media played in Jacinda Ardern's resignation, the current situation in Haiti, and cultural recommendations for the week.Leading:Have you heard this week's episode of Leading, where Alastair interviews Marina Litvinenko, widow of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy poisoned by the Putin regime?Listen:apple.co/3XsICFCspoti.fi/3D76yX1pod.link/1665265193TRIP Plus:Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening, join the TRIP Plus Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up.Instagram:@restispoliticsTwitter:@RestIsPoliticsEmail:restispolitics@gmail.comProducers: Dom Johnson + Nicole MaslenExec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who gave Boris Johnson an £800k loan when he was PM? Is Nadhim Zahawi's political career over? Why is Russia on a charm offensive in Africa?Alastair and Rory cover all the latest political news from both the UK and abroad in today's episode of The Rest Is Politics.Leading:Have you heard this week's episode of Leading, where Alastair interviews Marina Litvinenko, widow of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy poisoned by the Putin regime?Listen:apple.co/3XsICFCspoti.fi/3D76yX1pod.link/1665265193TRIP Plus:Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up.Instagram:@restispoliticsTwitter:@RestIsPoliticsEmail:restispolitics@gmail.comProducers: Dom Johnson + Nicole MaslenExec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexander Litvinenko: the man who solved his own murder after being poisoned by the Russian State in London. Marina, his widow, battled for justice successfully in both a UK public enquiry and a case at the European Court of Human Rights. As a leading critic of Vladimir Putin's regime, 'mafia state' and invasion of Ukraine - Marina sat down with Alastair to discuss Alexander's murder, her fight for justice, being in Ukraine when Russia invaded last February, and how the Kremlin tried to conscript her son for the war in Ukraine. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening, receive a weekly TRIP newsletter, join the TRIP Plus Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in hundreds of print, TV and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine, and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities.

Film and TV correspondent Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to look at a new series on TVNZ+ which stars David Tennant as Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy and Kremlin critic who was poisoned by polonium; I Hate Suzie's second season is streaming on Neon and amid the controversy about it...is Harry&Meghan's documentary series (Netflix) any good?

It's been 16 years since the fatal poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, who had exposed corruption in Russia and died in a hospital in London after ingesting tea which contained a radioactive substance. His wife, Marina Litvinenko, brought the case to the European Court of Human Rights in 2021 which upheld that Mr Litvinenko had been the victim of a FSB assassination “probably” approved by Putin. Russia denies any involvement. Marina joins Emma to discuss the upcoming ITVX drama Litvinenko. The government has announced that street harassment will be made a crime in England with jail sentences of up to two years. The Home Secretary Suella Braverman who has backed the move says ‘every woman should feel safe to walk our streets'. But what's the reality? Reporter Ellie Flynn recently went undercover to highlight the experience of sexual harassment experienced by girls and women in the UK today. She joins Emma to talk about her new documentary. The discovery of an ancient female burial site in Northamptonshire has been described as one of the most important finds ever discovered in Britain. This woman is thought to be a Christian leader of significant wealth and her jewellery is considered an outstanding example of craftsmanship for this early medieval period. Emma is joined by Lyn Blackmore, from the Museum of London and Irina Dumitrescu, Professor for Medieval English Literature at the University of Bonn. It's been revealed that the author JK Rowling is founding and personally funding a new female only service for survivors of sexual violence in Edinburgh. We are joined by the BBC's David Wallace Lockhart and The Daily Telegraph's Suzanne Moore who broke the story. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

In the second part of this series we discuss Putin's first years in office, in particular the Moscow apartment bombings and the Moscow theater hostage crisis. Both events were blamed on Chechen militants despite overwhelming evidence of state involvement.This episode picks up in Putin's first term as president, which almost immediately was overshadowed by the Moscow apartment bombings, which were blamed on Chechen terrorists despite all signs pointing to the KGB / FSB. The FSB had recently acquired large quantities of hexogen, an explosive found at the scene. Composite sketches of a suspect were circulated by police and local press, and then erased from existence at the behest of the FSB when they decided upon a suspect: Chechen rebellion leader Achemez Gochiyaev. Please become a patron if you enjoy our content and want to support us, you'll get all of our public episodes ad-free. Key to investigating the FSB's links to these bombings were three people we have mentioned before, former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, former media oligarch Boris Berezovsky, and reporter Anna Politkovskaya, all of whom have since been murdered by Russian intelligence or mobsters since that time. If you want to read more on this subject, we recommend Blowing Up Russia by Litvinenok and Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky, as well as From Russia With Blood by Heidi Blake. 1, 2 Following the bombings, the Moscow theater crisis was another event in which the FSB was complicit in killing Russian civilians and blaming the carnage on Chechen militants. An entire theater was taken hostage leading to a multi-day seige from Russian police and military, after which the FSB gassed the theater, killing indiscriminately both hostage-takers and hostages alike. It seems that the lone "Chechen militant" escapee from the crisis, Khanpasha Terkibayev, was kicked out of dozens of local Chechen resistance organizations, because everyone in his home region suspected him of being an informant for the FSB. 1. Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky, Blowing Up Russia, Encounter Books, March 2007. ⇤2. Heidi Blake, From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West, Mulholland Books, November 2019. ⇤

In 2006, British-based Russian author and journalist Alexander Litvinenko is suddenly taken seriously ill. His deterioration is world news, chronicled right up until his death 3 weeks later.Thing is, Litvinenko wasn't only a journalist - he was a former Russian agent. And not only was he a former Russian agent, he was a vocal critic of the Kremlin and of Vladmir Putin, having gone on record accusing Putin of unspeakable crimes.A deliberate assassination, not even disguised as an accident. Is this when the world started waking up to the idea of a new full-blown tyrant? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever wondered how much radiation the human body can withstand? In this episode of What The Forensics we discuss the controversial case of Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-Russian KGB agent who gets exposed to Polonium-210 while seeking asylum in the UK. Rebecca tells us all about who Alexander Litvinenko was and what led him to the seek out safety in the United Kingdom. Nicole then educates us on how radiation poisoning works, signs, symptoms, and different types of exposure. This is a captivating and educational episode that listeners will love!Interested in learning more about when WTF releases new episodes, contests, and more? Make sure to give us a follow on:Facebook and Instagram: @WhatTheForensics For more details about the hosts, episode details, sources, and images related to each episode, check out our website at https://www.whattheforensics.ca/

--On the Show: --An explainer on inflation, including how inflation itself eventually reduces inflation --Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, suddenly signal support for the new gun safety bill, which is a very weak bill --Donald Trump explodes on Truth Social as the January 6 Trump riot committee hearings crush him --Donald Trump claims to have written an outrageous 12-page letter responding to the January 6 committee Trump riot hearings --Donald Trump Jr's then-girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle was paid $60,000 in Trump donor money to speak for barely more than two minutes at the January 6 Washington DC rally --Technical disasters hilariously plague former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren's first episode on the radical right wing media outlet Newsmax --Radical right wing Newsmax host Chris Salcedo wildly claims that Nancy Pelosi wants Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh killed so that Joe Biden can appoint a new justice --Pro-Trump Republican candidate Mark Burns calls for the killing of the parents of LGBT kids --Formerly gay right-wing provocateur Mile Yiannopoulos is now interning with radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and is also her podcast sidekick in a bizarre turn of events --Voicemail caller is not impressed with David's impression of Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones --On the Bonus Show: Florida abortion ban violates Jews' religious freedom, Russian agent linked to radioactive poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko dead of COVID, Russia's rebranded McDonald's calls itself Delicious, much more...

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I sit down with Bryan Fogel, Oscar-winning director of Icarus and The Dissident. We discuss the creative processes behind his films as well as the political corruption exposed in them. Topics:The creative processes behind his filmsHow to build trust with film subjectsIs there anything to do about political corruption?The books that had an impact on Bryan FogelBryan Fogel's advice for teenagersResources:1984 - https://amzn.to/3N4MVliA Very Expensive Poison (Luke Harding's book about Alexander Litvinenko's murder) - https://amzn.to/3NiX3a4Bryan Fogel is the Award-winning Academy director of ICARUS, a documentary film about the whistleblower at the center of Russia's state-sponsored Olympic doping program. The film won the 2018 Oscar for Best Documentary and the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. He was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for Journalism, nominated for the BAFTA Award, three Emmys and the DGA Award for Best Direction. ICARUS contributed to Russia's ban from the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2020's Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act. Most recently, Bryan directed The Dissident, a documentary feature about the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, which was nominated for a BAFTA award, and the winner of the WGA award.Socials! -Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonTaylor's Blog: https://www.taylorgbledsoe.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-TwYdfPcWV-V1JvjBXkAll Amazon Affiliate links help financially support "Aiming for the Moon" while you get a great read or product.

Was Vladimir Putin born in Russia or in Georgia? Who is his biological mother – Vera Putina or Maria Ivanova Putina?Putin's autobiography says he was born in 1952 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg. But there is an alternative, more credible story which places his early years in Metekhi, Georgia and identifies his biological mother as a woman named Vera. In the Kremlin version, Putin's grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. If you like our content and want to support Dubious, please become a patron and subscribe to our add free premium episodes. Putin's mother was a factory worker and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. Early in World War II, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD – which later became KGB, now FSB. He was severely wounded in 1942. Vladimir Spiridonovich and Maria Ivanovna, his parents, had two more children, two boys but they both died before Putin was born: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany forces in WW2. In her memoir, Hard Choices, she shares a story Putin told her about this time in his life. This story does not fit the version Putin tells in his official autobiography. The then U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said he too had never heard it before. Putin also tells another story: one of his great teachers in life was a rat. 1 Putin's path was influenced by a movie called The Shield and The Sword - a 1968 Soviet spy series. It inspired him to join the KGB. Putin was impressed that “One man's effort could achieve what whole armies could not. One spy could decide the fate of thousands of people.” 2 There is an unofficial version of Putin's early years: Putin was actually born in Georgia. A woman named Vera who lives in Metheki, near Gori, in Georgia has been saying since 1999 that she is Putin's birthmother. Putina married a Georgian soldier Giorgi Osepahvili. In December 1960, the ultimatum from her husband, Putina travelled with "Vova" back to Ochyor, in Russia and she left the boy with her parents and returned to Georgia. Vera believes that the Leningrad "parents" referred to in Putin's official biography adopted HER son from his grandparents, so from her parents. The story was corroborated by Shura Gabinashvili, a former Russian teacher at the village school in Metekhi. She says Putin was her student and that she has received death threats about making these claims public. She remembers Putin by the same pet name Vera, his alleged biological mother uses: "Vova." 3 In this episode we also discuss Alexander Litvinenko, polonium 210, the suspicious death of BOTH Putin's Leningrad parents of cancer, AT THE SAME TIME. We also comment on the very peculiar deaths of Artyom Borovik who died in a plane crash coinciding with the documentary he was making about Vera and Putin's childhood & Italian journalist Antonio Russo who was also interested in Vera's story before was murdered while investigating Putin's war crimes in Chechnya. 1. Alex Kliment. Putin, Ukraine, and the Rat Story. Gzero. March 2022. ⇤2. Damien Sharkov. Straight Outta Leningrad: Putin Says Streetfights Taught Him How to Tackle ISIS. Newsweek. October 2015. ⇤3. Kate Weinberg. Could This Woman be Vladimir Putin's Real Mother?. Telegraph. December 2008. ⇤

We discuss Russia's escalating attacks on civilians in Ukraine, and similar tactics used previously in Syria and Chechnya.Putin has committed crimes against humanity before. With no real repercussions from the West. If you like our content, please subscribe to our premium episodes. During the Chechen wars, the West was not as outraged as now, because the victims were predominantly Muslim and world leaders at the time still believed Putin was fighting a war “against terror”. It was proved by journalists like Anna Politkovskaya and former FSB officer turned dissident Alexander Litvinenko that was in fact Putin who planned the now infamous Moscow apartment bombings of 1999 as a pretext to start a war with Chechnya. For a more detailed account, listen to our Putin's Rise to Power – Part 2 premium episode. 1, 2 We discuss verified reports of executions, sexual assault, torture, shelling of children hospitals, maternities, and blocks of flats, as well as other horrors emerging from Bucha, Borodyanka, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Irpin and Odessa. The number of civilian casualties just in Mariupol alone is estimated to exceed 20,000. They are rounding up Ukrainian civilians into camps and many people are “disappeared”. They have even killed dogs and their puppies. As Russia regroups to prepare for the Donbas battle, they are giving a new meaning to “scorched earth”. We go through a brief history of war crimes, and we will analyze the current situation, the West's reaction and what's coming next: General Alexander Dvornikov aka the Butcher of Syria and the Battle of Donbas. 3 Lviv University is the alma mater of the two lawyers who came up with the legal concepts of prosecutions at Nuremberg for genocide and crimes against humanity. Raphael Lemkin introduced the term ‘genocide' in international law and Hersch Lauterpacht coined ‘crimes against humanity' into international law. Putin is winning in Russia. He's losing internationally but he's winning at home, his popularity ratings inside Russia are 83%. On April 11, Putin arrested Vladimir Kara-Murza. The FSB has poisoned kara-Murza twice already. He's now in prison just Alexei Navalny, not likely to be released soon. A 13 km long Russian convoy is approaching Donbas. On the international scene Russia has been kicked out of the UN Human rights Council but not from the Security Council. The US is sending $750 M in military aid to Ukraine. Ukraine also has Bayraktar drones from Turkey. Finland and Sweden move closer to NATO membership. 4 1. Patrice Taddonio, What an ‘Unhinged' Meeting Reveals About Vladimir Putin's War on Ukraine, PBS, March 2022. ⇤2. Greg Myre, Russia's Wars in Chechnya Offer a Grim Warning of What Could Be in Ukraine, NPR, March 2022. ⇤3. Pjotr Sauer, Hundreds of Ukrainians Forcibly Deported to Russia, Say Mariupol Women, The Guardian, April 2022. ⇤4. Ben Arris, Editor in Chief, BNE Intellinews. ⇤

He's one of the most recognized people in the world and perhaps for all the wrong reasons.  Vladimir Putin rose through the ranks of the KGB during the Soviet era, and then quickly shot up the ladder of the Russian government to become its President.  He's currently invading neighboring country, Ukraine, and the world seems to have had about enough of his crap.  Putin has never been cast as an angel, but with his record of humanitarian issues, corruption, and power-hungry decisions, he seems to be fitting the bill quite nicely as a devil.  What could have happened in his life to cause him to turn out the way he has?  What could be at the root of his desire to punish those who don't see eye to eye with him?  We'll dive into this and much more in this episode of AHC Podcast.       Music Credits: Dar Golan Royalty free Russian music - free instrumental music for personal or commercial use - Copyright free. You can use this music for personal or commercial use.   You can download this track and many more right here: https://dargolan-free.com       Citations: Statista Research Department, S. R. D. (2022, March 2). Putin approval rating Russia 2021. Statista. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia/ Chapter One - Brookings Institution. Who is Mr. Putin? (n.d.). Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Chapter-One-1.pdf Dowling, T. (2020, March 23). Putin: A russian spy story review – 'schoolyard thug' who became an unstoppable leader. Putin: A Russian Spy Story review – 'schoolyard thug' who became an unstoppable leader. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/23/putin-a-russian-spy-story-review-schoolyard-thug-who-became-an-unstoppable-leader Hjelmgaard, K., & Nemtsova, A. (2022, February 19). A life on the world stage, but scant biographical details: What we know of the life of Vladimir Putin. USA Today. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/02/19/putin-biography/6830111001/ Hoffman, D. (2000, January 30). Putin's Career Rooted in Russia's KGB. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/putin.htm Ioffe, J. (2017, January 13). How blackmail works in Russia. The Atlantic. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/kompromat-trump-dossier/512891/ Nazaryen, A. (2022, March 6). 'capable of anything': How the '99 apartment bombings explain Putin's rise and regime. 'Capable of anything': How the '99 apartment bombings explain Putin's rise and regime. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://news.yahoo.com/putin-1999-apartment-bombings-ukraine-175001959.html Rosenberg, S. (2019, December 17). The man who helped make ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin a president. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50807747 Thrush, G. (2009, September 21). Yeltsin drunk. in his underwear. hailing a cab. POLITICO. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2009/09/yeltsin-drunk-in-his-underwear-hailing-a-cab-021553 U.S. crude oil first purchase price (dollars per barrel). (n.d.). Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=f000000__3&f=m Walsh, N. P. (2003, June 23). Putin pulls plug on last critical TV channel. The Guardian. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/23/media.russia Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, March 21). Alexander Litvinenko. Wikipedia. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, March 22). Anna Politkovskaya. Wikipedia. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, March 26). Vladimir Putin. Wikipedia. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin Wilson, J. (2016, March 11). Here's a list of Putin critics who've ended up dead. Business Insider. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-people-putin-is-suspected-of-assassinating-2016-3 York, C. C. of N. (2000, July 28). U.S.-Russia relations: Quest for stability. U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://usrussiarelations.org/2/timeline/after-the-fall/68

(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ David Satter is a journalist, author, historian, and foreign policy expert –– who is widely regarded as one of the world's preeminent experts on Vladimir Putin / Russia. In December 2013, after years of exclusive reporting on Putin's crimes against humanity, David became the first Western Journalist ever banned from Russia (by their government) in the post-Cold War era.    From 1976 until his banishment in 2013, David spent the majority of his time living in the Soviet Union (which later became Russia) while working as the Moscow Correspondent for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is perhaps best known as the first researcher who claimed that Vladimir Putin and Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) were behind the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings, the 2002 Nord-Ost Siege, and the 2004 Beslan School Attack.   Over the past 2 decades, David has authored 5 books on Russia / The Soviet Union. Furthermore, he is also a Senior Fellow at both the Foreign Policy Research Institute & The Hudson Institute –– as well as a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Intro; The story behind Putin's government banning David from Russia in 2013; David's backstory working as a Moscow correspondent; Recounting the fallout of post-Soviet Russia 16:19 - David was the first reporter to blow the whistle on Putin; the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings; The Boris Yeltsin years in Russia; Chechnya Background and the First Chechen War; Putin's rise to the Russian Presidency 36:04 - David breaks down the timeline and full details of the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings; “Soldiers Guarding Sugar”; The Chechen Dagestan Invasion Inside Job; Putin's popularity ratings post-bombing and 2000 Election; Does Putin look at himself as a Soviet?; David talks about his earliest suspicions on the bombing 59:13 - The brutal story behind the 2002 Nord-Ost Siege (Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis); The 2004 Beslan School Massacre; Putin to stay in power for life? 1:09:56 - What happened in Ukraine in 2014 (Maidan and Putin's annexation of Crimea); Malaysia Airlines Flight 17; Did David see the Ukraine Invasion coming?; Russian Government Murders: Boris Nemtsov, Alexander Litvinenko (in London), Ana Politkovskaya; Bill Browder's book, Red Notice 1:24:03 - Barack Obama's Reset Policy with Russia; David recalls a meeting he and Boris Nemtsov had with the Obama administration; What the US strategy towards Putin should be; The Julian Assange CIA report from Yahoo; The murder of Ana Politkovskaya's Chechen source 1:41:46 - David and Julian discuss the public comparisons between Putin and the most notorious leader of all time; Back to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 aftermath; The Ukraine Invasion's Effects on NATO; Many Russian people are victims of the regime 2:02:34 - Discussing the ominous calls in the media for a “No Fly Zone” in Ukraine (which could effectively cause WWIII); We need to find ways to get proper information to the Russian people 2:12:29 - David lays out the history of Propaganda in Russia; Analyzing the psychology of the Russian people; The opportunism practiced by men like Boris Yeltsin; Communism and Fascism are the same beasts w/ different faces 2:29:47 - The Endless Wars problem; The CIA and the Iraq WMD Controversy; How Intelligence Agencies operate; The disastrous Afghanistan pull out; Defeating ideologies 2:50:04 - Did Putin actually think Ukraine was about to join NATO?; The Russian Oligarch system; David's predictions on the Russia Ukraine War; David discusses Putin's mental state ~ YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q ~ PRIVADO VPN FOR $4.99/Month: https://privadovpn.com/trendifier/#a_aid=Julian   Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: "TRENDIFIER"): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Beat provided by: https://freebeats.io Music Produced by White Hot

On February 24th the world watched in horror as the Russian military started its invasion of Ukraine.In this episode we are discussing all the things that led to Putin's war on Ukraine, the west's lax attitude and response, and Ukraine's fight for freedom and acceptance in the EU over the past three decades. Latest developments at the time of recording are of course discussed as well. If you enjoy our episodes, please subscribe. Historical and geopolitical context is key to understanding the current tragedy unfolding under our eyes. We start off with The Budapest Memorandum of 1994 when, after the fall of the USSR, Ukraine was assured by the US, UK and Russia that its territorial sovereignty would be protected as long as they gave up their nuclear warheads. 1 Next we discuss The Orange Revolution of 2004, when the Ukrainian people organized nationwide protests in support of fair elections after Russian tampering, and the poisoning of candidate Viktor Yushchenko by Russian intelligence. He almost died and remained disfigured. We also discuss how the protest movements of this time in led to similar uprisings in support of elections in other countries in the region such as Moldova and Belarus, and how all of this led to similar protests within Russia itself in 2011, and Putin's personal feud with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 2 Then we discuss the Revolution of Dignity following the elections of 2010, in which the Russian-favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, was elected to the presidency of Ukraine, leading to another round of protests and a violent response from the state police and military. We also go over the subsequent Russian annexation of Crimea, and failure (again) of western countries and NATO to live up to their assurances made in the 1994 agreement that saw Ukraine stripped of nuclear weapons. 3 In addition to all of this we discuss the specifics of no-fly zones and how Russia has evaded them in the past, for example during the recent Syrian conflict. Also the firings of Ukranian officials at the behest of US presidents, such as the "Trump phone call" from 2019 to current Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky, and the overlap between GOP and Ukranian right-wing campaign advisors, Paul Manafort for example. We also discuss the persecution of Russian dissidents Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya who were all killed by Russian intelligence agents while living in London. 4 This is a multi-part series, in the next episode we'll discuss the devastation from the invasion in Mariupol, Kharkhiv, Kherson. Irpin, Kyiv and other Ukranian cities, and the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 17 incident. 1. Memorandum on security assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, December 1994. ⇤2. Ukraine's Ex-president on Being Poisoned, BBC, April 2018. ⇤3. Revolution of Dignity, Maidan Museum. ⇤4. David Cenciotti, Syrian Mig-29 Fulcrums Escorted the 28 Russian Jets... Hiding Under Cargo Planes, The Aviationist, September 2015. ⇤

This episode continues our foray into poisons used by agents of the Russian government which we began examining in Episode 20: Ricin. We cover the creation of The Chamber, truth serums, and the polonium used to assassinate Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week's episode takes a walk on the dark side, with a molecular look at a prominent international poisonings.Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov died in 1978 after a ricin pellet was shot into his leg, from an air gun disguised as an umbrella. Twenty-eight years later, former KGB/FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko suffered horribly and died after the poison polonium-210 was slipped into his tea. And former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia nearly died in 2018 from the effects of a nerve agent attack.To understand how the molecules used in these assaults do their worst to the human body, David Priess speaks with Dr. Neil Bradbury, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science--where he teaches and conducts research on genetic diseases, especially cystic fibrosis. He is the author of A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them, which combines elements of popular science, medical history, and true crime to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect through the use of poison. We spoke about the four routes through which poison can be delivered to a victim, the physiology and biochemistry behind a few poisons, the prominent assassinations of Markov and Litvinenko, the attempted assassination of Skripal, and the difficulty of getting away with murder using even rare poisons once their effects are known. The information in this episode is purely for educational and entertainment purposes and is not intended to give the advantages and disadvantages of the use of any particular poison in the commission of any crime.Chatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Among the works cited in this episode:A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them, by Neil BradburyDr. Bradbury's research on cystic fibrosis"Murder by Numbers," The Police (the PoliceWiki)"A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie" (agathachristie.com) Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

His hair fell out, his eyes turned yellow, and he was dead in less than a month. Somebody poisoned Alexander Litvinenko...but who? Originally published 2017.