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Podcast: True Crime Never Sleeps
Episode: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko
Description: This week we are diving into the assassination of Russian Alexander Litvinenko. One of President Putin's biggest critics and threats. Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security service who escaped prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom. In his books, Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within and Lubyanka Criminal Group, Litvinenko described Russian president Vladimir Putin's rise to power as a coup d'état organized by the FSB.
He alleged that a key element of the FSB's strategy was to frighten Russians by bombing apartment buildings in Moscow and othe...