A British public inquiry’s finding that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely approved the assassination of a former Russian spy turned Kremlin critic in London has renewed attention on the number of Putin’s opponents jailed or killed since he came to power.
Russian authorities quickly dismissed the inquiry’s assessment — that their security service in 2006 poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium in a London hotel — as “politically motivated.”
Even before inquiry’s results were released, Putin’s press secretary declared the Kremlin was not interested in the case.
The inquiry’s conclusion that Russia had Litvinenko murdered for betrayal has raised …read more
Source: Voice of America
