The widow of Alexander Litvinenko, the dissident former Russian security agent poisoned with radioactive polonium, praised British actor David Tennant’s portrayal of her husband in a new TV drama. | AFP
The portrayal of her husband was “not simply a job” but “very much from the heart,” she said.
Marina Litvinenko said she hoped the series would remind people of the events in 2006 when her husband died from severe radioactive poisoning in London, accusing President Vladimir Putin in a letter written from his deathbed. “I see a very strong link between what happened in 2006 and what is happening now in 2022,” she said, giving the view that the Kremlin’s strategy “started then, maybe even earlier, but people just didn’t want to see this.”
One of the prime suspects in the 2006 killing, Andrei Lugovoi, still serves as a Russian lawmaker. The other, Dmitry Kovtun, died in June this year from an illness related to Covid.The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights ruled in September that Russia was responsible for the killing of Litvinenko, a verdict swiftly rejected by Moscow.
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