What the records say
- When
- 23 Nov 2006
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 51.51° N, 0.15° W
- Description
- Alexander Litvinenko dies in London having been poisoned by Polonium-210.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
2006 fatal poisoning of Russian defector
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was an officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and its Soviet predecessor, the Committee for State Security (KGB), until he left the service and fled the country in late 2000, defecting to the UK.
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