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Friday, 19 January 2007 |
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Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy, poses at his home in London on May 10, 2002. A British publishing house is reissuing a controversial book by the poisoned Russian spy Alexander — the first of a slew of planned editions.
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It's not your average spy novel.
A British publishing house is reissuing a controversial book by poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko -- the first of a slew of planned editions that will carry the dead man's anti-Kremlin allegations around the world.
Litvinenko's "Blowing Up Russia" is due for release by Gibson Square Books on Friday, almost two months after the former agent's death from radiation poisoning.
The book was "a gripping and formidable accusation against the former bosses of Litvinenko," Gibson House publisher Martin Rynja said Thursday. It alleges that Kremlin authorities were behind a series of apartment-house bombings in 1999 that killed more than 300 people and were blamed by Moscow on Chechen separatists.
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WHAT HAPPENED?
Litvinenko, 43, died in November, several weeks after falling ill with what was later determined to be poisoning by the rare radioactive isotope polonium-210.
The former agent in the KGB and its successor, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, fled to Britain after leaving Russia and was granted asylum. In exile, he became a fierce Kremlin critic. In a deathbed statement, Litvinenko blamed the Kremlin for his poisoning — a claim Russian officials deny.
British and Russian authorities continue to investigate his death.
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