Luke Harding - A Very Expensive Poison

The author would like to thank:

Fiona Bacon, Louis Blom-Cooper, Robert Booth, Irina Borogan, Oliver Bullough, Barbara Caspar, Paula Chertok, Lindsay Davies, Lizzy Davies, Martin Dewhirst, Norman Dombey, Ben Emmerson, Michael Fleischer, David Godwin, Alex Goldfarb, Felicity Harding, John Harding, Laura Hassan, Henning Hoff, David Leigh, Anatoly Litvinenko, Marina Litvinenko, Robin Milner-Gulland, Peter Neyroud, Richard Norton-Taylor, Robert Service, Alex Shprintsen, Andrei Soldatov, Adam Straw, Phoebe Taplin, Andrei Terekhov, Elena Tsirlina, Cyril Tuschi, Federico Varese, Shaun Walker, Jamie Wilson.

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Page 2: (top left and right) courtesy of Marina Litvinenko; (bottom) Litvinenko Inquiry, www.litvinenko.org

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Page 6: (top left) Berezovsky © Rex; (top right) Abramovich © Getty Images; (middle) Perepilichnny courtesy of the Guardian ; (bottom left) Nemtsov© Associated Press; (bottom right) Nemtsov © Getty Images

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Plate 8: (top and bottom) © Getty Images

All images used within the text are reproduced by kind permission of the Litvinenko Inquiry ( www.litvinenko.org) apart from p. 280, CCTV still taken from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project ( www.occrp.org) and p. 361 , author’s own

(the initials AL refer to Alexander Litvinenko)

Abeltsev, Sergei 1

Abramovich, Roman:

Berezovsky vs 1;

judgment in 1

Chelsea FC bought by 1

property portfolio of 1

and Putin 1

and Sibneft 1

Aeroflot 1

Akhmetov, Rinat 1

Aksyonov, Sergey 1, 2, 3

Akulov, Vitaly 1

Alexashenko, Sergei 1, 2

Andrade, Norberto 1, 2

Andropov, Yuri 1, 2, 3

Atlangeriev, Ruslan 1

Atomic Weapons Establishment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Attew, Dean 1, 2

Aulov, Nikolai 1

Avakov, Arsen 1

Balfour, Charles 1

Bandera, Stepan 1

Barsukov, Vladimir 1

Bastrykin, Alexander 1, 2, 3

Baturina, Elena 1

Bedford, Peter 1

Bell, Tim 1

Berezovsky, Boris 1 passim , 2

vs Abramovich 1;

judgment in 1

AL begins work for 1

AL ordered to kill 1

AL paid by 1

AL’s closeness to 1

AL’s cooling dealings with 1

and AL’s deathbed statement 1

and AL’s escape 1, 2, 3, 4

birthday party of 1

carelessness of 1

death of 1;

and funeral 1;

and inquest 1

failed biography of 1

FSB’s criminal inquiry into 1

Kremlin tries to destroy 1

Kremlin’s accusation against 1

open letter of, to Putin 1

political asylum for 1

and Putin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

revolution plotted by 1

self-exile of 1

and T-shirt 1

Beria, Lavrenty 1, 2, 3

Berlusconi, Silvio 1

Beyrle, John 1

Bezler, Igor 1

Black, Stuart 1

Blair, Tony 1, 2, 3

Blowing Up Russia (Litvinenko) 1, 2, 3, 4

Bonnetti, Bruno 1

Borodai, Andrei 1

Bortnikov, Alexander 1

Brenton, Tony 1, 2

Brezhnev, Leonid 1

Brinkmann, Prof. Bernd 1

Browder, Bill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Brown, Gordon 1

Brown, CI Kevin 1

Bukovsky, Vladimir 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

and public inquiry, see under Litvinenko, Alexander

Burgess, Bruce 1

Burgess, Guy 1

Burnazyan, Avetik 1

Bush, George W. 1, 2, 3

Butcher, Duane 1

Butyrka 1

C2 1, 2

Cameron, David 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

on AL’s murder 1

Browder’s letter to 1

Emmerson’s criticism of 1

Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) 1

Carrau, Juan 1

Cary, Dr Nathaniel 1

Chaika, Yuri 1

Chechnya 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Yeltsin’s attacks on 1, 2, 3

Chelsea FC 1, 2

Cherkasov, Ivan 1

Chertok, Paula 1

Chirac, Jacques 1

Chitty, David 1

Clinton, Hillary 1

Cohen, Nick 1

Colombian drug smugglers 1, 2

Conservative Friends of Russia 1

Continental Petroleum Limited 1, 2

Corbyn, Jeremy 1

Cotelle, Sonya 1

Cotlick, Michael 1

Crimea 1, 2, 3, 4

( see also Ukraine)

Putin annexes 1, 2

( see also Crimea)

Curie, Marie and Pierre 1, 2

Curtis, Stephen 1

D3 1, 2, 3, 4

in inquiry report 1

D5 1

Dadayev, Zaur 1, 2

Derkach, Leonid 1

Dewhirst, Martin 1

Dombey, Prof. Norman 1 passim , 2, 3

Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

( see also Ukraine)

Dubov, Yuli 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Dumas, Alexander 1

Duritskaya, Anna 1

Dzerzhinsky, Felix 1

Dzhemilev, Mustafa 1

Dzholos, Oleg 1

Emmerson, Ben 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

on UK’s response to inquiry report 1

Erinys 1, 2, 3

Felshtinsky, Yuri 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Fermi, Enrico 1

Filinov, Rafael 1

Firestone, Jamison 1

Five Eyes 1

Fried, Daniel 1

FSB ( see also KGB):

AL dismissed from 1

and AL’s escape 1

AL’s investigation of officers in 1

and AL’s observation skills 1

and AL’s press conference 1

and anti-Semitism 1

author summoned by 1

author targeted by 1, 2, 3

contract killers used by 1

corruption within 1

as criminalised entity 1

in inquiry report 1, 2

and KGB’s lost supremacy 1

Lefortovo Prison used by 1

and Nemtsov 1

privately admits to AL’s murder 1

as purveyor of state terror 1

Putin becomes head of 1

research institute of 1, 2

UK severs cooperation with 1

Ukrainian officers recruited by 1

URPO unit within 1;

dissolved 1;

press conference of 1

in WikiLeaks cables 1

Furlani, Andrea 1

Fysh, Dr Raymond 1

G8 1, 2

Gadny, Oliver 1

The Gang from the Lubyanka (Litvinenko) 1, 2

Gazprom 1, 2, 3, 4

GCHQ 1, 2

Gelsemium elegans 1

Gent, Dr Nick 1, 2

Georgia 1, 2, 3

Geranin, Col. Vasili 1

Ginzburg, Yevgenia 1

Global Project 1, 2

Gloster, Justice 1, 2, 3

Glushkov, Nikolai 1, 2, 3

Gochiyaev, Achemez 1

Goldfarb, Alex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

on AL 1

and AL’s deathbed statement 1

and AL’s escape 1

AL’s father blames 1

on Berezovsky 1, 2

deported to Turkey 1

Kremlin’s accusation against 1, 2

on MI6 1

and Potemkin 1

on Putin paedophile allegation 1

Goldfarb, Svetlana 1

Golovlyov, Vladimir 1

Gorbachev, Mikhail 1, 2, 3, 4

Gorbunova, Elena 1

Gorbuntsov, German 1

Gordievsky, Oleg 1, 2, 3, 4

Gorky Park (Smith) 1

Gourdault-Montagne, Maurice 1

Grayling, Chris 1

Grinda Gonzalez, Jose 1, 2, 3, 4

Gudkov, Gennady 1

The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn) 1

Gunvor 1

Hague, William 1

Haran, Prof. Olexiy 1

Harding, Luke ( see also Mafia State ):

FSB targets 1, 2, 3, 4

Russia expels 1

Harrison, John 1

Henry, Prof. John 1

Hermitage Capital 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Hiroshima 1

Hoar, DS Chris 1, 2, 3, 4

Hohne, Inne 1

How to Poison a Spy ( Panorama ) 1

Hunter, Keith 1

Hyatt, DI Brent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 passim , 6

Idrisova, Angelina 1

Ilykaev, Radii 1, 2

Ismailov, Lecha 1

Israilov, Umar 1

Ivanov, Sergei 1, 2

Ivanov, Sergey 1

Ivanov, Viktor 1, 2