“You don’t know what” Yura Bekauri in conversation with author, December 17, 1994.
That was how a young Boston Cynthia Elbaum was killed on December 22, 1994.
Oleg Orlov, a distinguished investigator Detail from author interview with Oleg Orlov, January 28, 1995.
We set out to find Detail and quotes from author interview with Isan Matayev, January 29, 1995.
“Go outside the village” Author interview with Mariam Madiyeva, January 31, 1995.
“They were pushing us” Author interview with Abu Oshayev, January 31, 1995.
“Do you want to be” Author interview with Matayev.
Putin objected to the skits Author interview with Grigory Lubomirov, March 25, 2007.
“The current FSB wouldn’t” Author interview with Nikita Petrov, August 31, 2007.
“Russian history taught its people” Ibid.
In 2004, Qatar convicted two Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was murdered on February 13, 2004. Anatoly Yablochkov, thirty-five, and Vasily Pugachyov, thirty-two, were convicted by a Qatari court of murder and sentenced to life in prison. They were let go in January 2005. On February 17, 2005, the BBC quoted a Russian prison official named Yuri Kalinin that the pair was not in any Russian prison, and that in any case the Qatari conviction was “irrelevant here in Russia” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4275147.stm).
Her most recent study Detail and quote from author interview with Olga Kryshtanovskaya, September 3, 2007.
Yuri Sinelshchikov, a former deputy Detail and quote from author interview with Yuri Sinelshchikov, April 10, 2007.
“The local attitude is, ‘Shit happens’” Author interview with Rory MacFarquar, March 20, 2007.
“Life isn’t straightforward here” Author interview with Al Breach, March 19, 2007.
“I would advise you” Author interview with Alexei Miller, August 28, 2007.
“People say that Russians” Author interview with Alexander Kamenskii, September 3, 2007.
Russia’s first crowned czar Physical description of Ivan from Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff, Ivan the Terrible (New York: Crowell, 1975), 215.
“thrust into his fundament through his” Edward Augustus Bond, Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century (London: Hakluyt Society, 1861 reprint of 1591 manuscript of Sir Jerome Horsey), 173. Horsey was an agent of the Russia Company and was described as having lived in Moscow more or less continually from 1575 to 1591.
“cut off his nose, his tongue” Benson Bobrick, Fearful Majesty (New York: Putnam, 1987), 207.
Convinced that one Prince Vladimir Payne and Romanoff, Ivan the Terrible, 263–64.
“to make an example” Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 270.
“In case also that anyone” Ibid., 726.
Josef Stalin executed nearly all Number of dead under Stalin from Robert Conquest, The Great Terror (London: Pimlico, repr. 1994), 286, 339.
“teacher, teacher” Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003), 350.
“constantly compared his terror” Ibid.
“he should have killed” Ibid., 206.
“victorious Russian rulers” Pavel and Anatoli Sudoplatov with Jerrold L. and Leona P. Schecter, Special Tasks (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), 5.
Indeed, his book is a Assassinations as described in Sudoplatov et al. Special Tasks, 27, 46–49, 67–83.
Dressed in a silk scarf and a Detail and quotes from author interview with Musa Eitingon Malinovskaya, August 30, 2007.
Another defector, Bulgarian novelist Description of Georgy Markov’s assassination based on the documentary Umbrella Assassin (PBS, 2006). Markov was jabbed on September 7, 1978, and died four days later, on September 11, 1978.
In summer 1993, three gunmenThe New York Times, August 16, 1993.
In April 1995, two gunmen killedThe New York Times, June 7, 1995.
And in November 1996The New York Times, November 11, 1996.
In a 1994 case, police cameThe New York Times, December 11, 1994.
“a mixture between” John Lloyd, The New York Times Magazine, August 15, 1999.
The story of Vladimir Putin’s ascent The number of Yeltsin’s heart attacks had been a closely held secret until Yeltsin disclosed it in a January 2004 interview with RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, according to a BBC dispatch, January 20, 2004.
In recent months, allegations had surfaced Sharon LaFraniere, The Washington Post, September 8, 1999.
“a man of” Oleg Kalugin, quoted by Paul Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2000), 297.
By the end of 2006 Olga Kryshtanovskaya, quoted by Reuters, December 15, 2006.
“I think the best plan would” Mikhail Fridman, quoted by John Lloyd, The New York Times Magazine, October 8, 2000.
Yeltsin warned that Boris Yeltsin, quoted by CNN, April 9, 1999.
“transformed the Russian political” Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin, 302.
“Ryazan was planned” David Satter, Darkness at Dawn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), n265.
“those who needed another” Ibid., 69.
Opposition lawmaker Vladimir Golovlyov Vladimir Golovlyov was killed August 21, 2002; Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin were killed on April 17, 2003, and July 3, 2003, respectively. Mikhail Trepashkin was jailed on October 22, 2003.
“There are no people” Vladimir Putin, quoted in The New York Times, February 2, 2002.
Russia possessed 26 percent of BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2007.
As prime minister, Putin Andrew Jack, Inside Putin’s Russia (London: Granta Books, 2004), 14.
“This profession employs” Vladimir Putin, quoted in The Washington Post, December 22, 2006.
Europe was an important energy BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2006. It is understood by energy experts that Europe’s reliance on Russian natural gas did not diminish in 2007 and 2008.
According to the SOVA Center Statistics from the SOVA Center are at http://xeno.sova-center.ru/6BA2468.
He thought Washington simply didn’t understand Quotes, paraphrases, and detail from author’s interview with “Viktor,” August 29, 2007.
“I heard it from the Kremlin” Author interview with Vyacheslav Nikonov, April 29, 2007.
“overstepped its national borders” Vladimir Putin, quoted in official transcript of his February 10, 2007, speech before the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy.
When the United States said February 21, 2007, in The Washington Post.
“Gentlemen, Russia has” Sergei Yastrzhembsky, quoted in International Herald Tribune, February 22, 2007.
“Putin may be back” Author interview with Vyacheslav Nikonov.
“everything is the state” Author interview with Boris Volodarsky, February 28, 2007.
“copper-colored skin was” Nikolai Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience (New York: David McKay, 1959), 353.
“artistic whistler” Ibid., 13.
In short order, Nikolai signed Sudoplatov et al., Special Tasks, 35.
“Kube is killed” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 71, 73, 75.
“kill a man whose” Ibid., 54.
“blond, blue-eyed good looks” Sudoplatov et al., Special Tasks, 247–48.
“a young Sudoplatov” Nikolai Khokhlov spoke in person and by phone and communicated via e-mail numerous times during 2007. This particular quote came from a telephone interview with the author on June 9, 2007.
“I have big plans for you” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 95.
“if he admitted” Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.
“the finest and most” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 184–85.
“didn’t care” Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.
“short-witted” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 216.
“apparently a very good man” Ibid., 201–02.
“Is it possible that this” Ibid., 240.
“I’ve come to you from” Ibid., 246.
“rigorous questioning” Author interview with Thomas Polgar, intelligence adviser to CIA station chief at the time, July 21, 2007.
he was a high-value catch Based on author interview with David E. Murphy, who was in charge of Soviet affairs for the CIA in Munich at the time of Nikolai’s defection, July 21, 2007.
“blow for blow” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 318.
“keep Yana in the embassy” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience.
“I was desperate” Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.
“a slight, scholarly-appearing blond” Reporter quoted in The New York Times, April 23, 1954.
“Nobody went to your family” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 345.
“say anything” Author interview with Thomas Polgar, July 20, 2007.
“he was never told” Author interview with David E. Murphy.
“nauseatingly friendly” This quote and details of the telephone calls and Yana’s sentence are from an unpublished addendum to In the Name of Conscience, provided to the author by Nikolai Khokhlov.
“things began to whirl” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 350.
“To be honest, it’s hopeless” Ibid., 357.
He later told crusading Anna Politkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta, July 1, 2004.
“due to poisoning, probably”The New York Times, October 15, 1957.
“square accounts” Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 354.
“disgusted” Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.
“done everything right” Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.
Five years later Unless otherwise noted, detail and quotes throughout this chapter are from separate author interviews with Ilya Lysak, Irina Fadeeva, Elena Baranovskaya, and their families. The interviews were conducted on May 4, 2007, and May 5, 2007 (Lysak); May 3, 2007 (Fadeeva); and April 14, 2007 (Baranovskaya). In addition, the author interviewed Fadeeva and Baranovskaya at a dinner of the Nord-Ostsi (the “People of Nord-Ost”) on August 30, 2007.
Among the lucky ones was Alim Detail and quotes from author interviews with Alim and Zauddin Tlupov, August 26, 1997.
Anna entered the lobby area Quotes and detail from Anna Politkovskaya’s account of her visit, Novaya Gazeta, October 28, 2002. I relied on a translation approved by Politkovskaya and published on the website of the International Women’s Media Foundation (http://www.iwmf.org/features/anna/).
Anna telephoned a trusted friend Quotes and detail of exchange with Dima Muratov and Alexander Voloshin from author interview with Muratov, September 4, 2007.
“You’ll help him” Elena Baranovskaya quoted by Anna Politkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta, October 23, 2003.
The assault had been organized with Mark Franchetti, The Sunday Times (London), November 3, 2002.
Still, after the fentanyl was released Detail on the continued pumping of fentanyl into the theater is from a former senior Kremlin official who observed the decision-making on the use of the gas firsthand. He spoke to the author on condition of anonymity so as to preserve his relations within the Kremlin.
A former Kremlin official who had Ibid.
“The gas was rather harmless” Author interview with Vyacheslav Nikonov.
Yuri Sinelshchikov, a former deputy Quotes and detail from author interview with Yuri Sinelshchikov.
Anna Politkovskaya had her suspicions Politkovskaya’s interview with Khanpasha Terkibayev, Novaya Gazeta, April 28, 2003.
After the interview, Terkibayev Natalya Serova, Politkom.ru, April 29, 2003.
“taken me by a finger” Irina Fadeeva quoted by Anna Politkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta, November 25, 2002.
“a severe wound in our heart” Vladimir Putin quoted by RFE-RL on October 23, 2003. Putin was in Kyrgyzstan when he issued the statement on the anniversary.
This somewhat vain political Boris Shikhmuradov was arrested in Turkmenistan either on December 25 or December 26, 2002. His arrest was announced the latter day.
“doesn’t go out to cleanse” Background on Russian gangs and quote from author interview with Mark Galeotti, February 25, 2007.
“have hotter blood so are” Author interview with Natalia Litvinenko, September 1, 2007. She and her two children with Alexander Litvinenko—their son, also named Alexander Litvinenko, and daughter, Sonya—also met for lengthy interviews with the author’s assistant, Anna Chernyakovskaya, May 26, 2007.
“felt sidelined” Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident (New York: Free Press, 2007), 21–22.
The two met when Litvinenko Ibid., 29–31.
“[T]hey developed a bond shared” Ibid., 37.
“You will be the one to” Ibid., 124.
“grave threat to our country” Ibid.
Yet Litvinenko decided that Berezovsky Detail of the men’s and Berezovsky’s initial actions from whistle-blowers’ news conference, November 17, 1998; and Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 122–24, 130–34.
Litvinenko and the other whistle-blowers Information on the thinking of the whistle-blowers from author interview with Yuri Felshtinsky, June 14, 2007.
“thoughtless statements” Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 145.
“a strange-looking man who” Quotes and detail from author interview with Felshtinsky.
“used for settling scores” Alexander Litvinenko’s statement quoted on “How to Poison a Spy,” Panorama, BBC television broadcast, January 22, 2007.
“extraordinary”The Independent (London), November 18, 1998.
“Moscow has talked of”The New York Times, November 21, 1998.
“internal scandals public” Vladimir Putin quoted by Yelena Tregubova in Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 160–61.
“was glad to have me” Quotes and detail from author interview with Felshtinsky. Felshtinsky’s account in general coincides with that presented in Death of a Dissident.
“Berezovsky was winning” Author interview with Felshtinsky.
Felshtinsky’s recollection is that Quotes and detail from author interview with Felshtinsky.
According to Death of a Dissident Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 219–20.
Not too long after, Natalia Litvinenko Author interview with Natalia Litvinenko.
“You know we have” Detail and quotes from author interview with Felshtinsky. The account does not conflict with Death of a Dissident, which relates Alex Goldfarb’s role in Litvinenko’s flight.
“Tell me Boris, I don’t…” Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 210–11. In an April 24, 2006, interview with the author, Berezovsky said that the book could be regarded as a completely factual account of events in which he was a participant. I regarded the book as one from the perspective of the Berezovsky camp.
“If we don’t go to the American embassy” Quotes and detail on Litvinenko’s escape from author interview with Felshtinsky. The account generally coincides with the Goldfarb account in Death of a Dissident.
Felshtinsky and Goldfarb began instantly Detail and quotes from author interview with Felshtinsky. Information on Marina Litvinenko’s feelings of betrayal from author interview with Marina Litvinenko, April 24, 2006.
“They’re here already…” Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 11.
“I won’t go alive” Ibid., 12.
“You left Tbilisi” Detail and quotes from author interview with Felshtinsky.
“We can’t be subject” Author interview with Felshtinsky.
Goldfarb left to his Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 15–18.
Berezovsky put up Litvinenko Detail on allowance from author interview with Marina Litvinenko.
“quite a positive figure” Quotes and background from author interviews with Oleg Gordievsky, February 7, 2007, and February 27, 2007.
Like Nikolai Khokhlov, Gordievsky Background on the Gordievsky family’s flight to London from “Family Joins K.G.B. Spy in London,” Reuters, September 7, 1991.
“She wanted the money” Detail and quotes from author interview with Gordievsky.
A descendant of czarist-era aristocrats Detail about Klebnikov’s accent from author interview with Maxim Kashulinsky, May 4, 2007.
“We’re fighting for Mother Russia” Song quoted in New York magazine, October 25, 2004.
His family’s Manhattan apartment Atmosphere of Klebnikov’s upbringing from Otto Pohl, “The Assassination of the Dream,” New York magazine, October 25, 2004; Nicholas Stein, “The American Who Knew Too Much,” Men’s Vogue, August 21, 2006. Klebnikov’s wife, Musa, recommended the two articles to the author as authoritative accounts of her husband’s life.
He visited Institut Le Rosey Paul Klebnikov, Forbes, July 5, 1999.
“a handful of clerics” Paul Klebnikov, Forbes, July 21, 2003.
“a gangster state” Paul Klebnikov, Forbes, November 1, 1999.
“replete with bankrupt companies” Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin, 4.
“If it is hard for westerners” Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin, 6.
“Most journalists think of themselves” James Michaels quoted in Men’s Vogue, August 21, 2006.
“He had this messianic belief” William Baldwin quoted in New York magazine, October 25, 2004.
The Russian edition of Godfather Sales figures of the two books obtained in an author interview with Valeri Streletsky, Klebnikov’s Russian publisher, May 3, 2007.
“He was doing investigative stories” Author interview with Leonid Bershidsky, May 3, 2007.
“I don’t know if” Quoted in New York magazine, October 25, 2004.
“spend a month on a” Author interview with Bershidsky.
Streletsky told me that Klebnikov Author interview with Streletsky.
“were marred by the assassination” Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin, 4.
Klebnikov also overexerts himself Ibid., 298–302.
“didn’t really understand what” Author interview with Alexander Politkovsky, April 18, 2007.
“He was naïve. He worshipped Russia” Author interview with Oleg Panfilov, March 25, 2007.
“Everything is topsy-turvy” Author interview with Berezovsky.
For his part, Berezovsky sank tens Figures on Berezovsky’s spending to oust Putin from Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 316.
“to demonstrate in the West” Author interview with Berezovsky.
“Russia’s flawed transition from Communism” Paul Klebnikov, Forbes, March 17, 2003.
“Dynamism is one of the core” Paul Klebnikov, Forbes Russia, May 2004; repr. Forbes, July 22, 2004.
“too much an apologist for” Author interview with Mark Franchetti, January 21, 2008.
He made a series of phone Detail on calls from Men’s Vogue, August 21, 2006.
A man inside the vehicle pointed Some accounts speak of two weapons being fired. Absent an ironclad account of who precisely shot, I am using the single-shooter account.
A guard rushed into the Newsweek Account of aftermath to Klebnikov’s killing from author interviews with Alexander Gordeev, April 19, 2007, and Mikhail Fishman, August 29, 2007, in addition to Gordeev’s written account, e-mailed to author by Gordeev.
“None of us ever had” Author interview with Kashulinsky.
“I think Putin himself called” Ibid.
“Not long ago one” Vladimir Putin, annual news conference, official Kremlin transcript, February 1, 2007.
“Nukhayev had no role” Author interview with Streletsky.
Once in custody, both suspects Author interview with a Russian journalist who asked not to be identified because he feared losing access to his police sources.
“big job” Quoted in Forbes, May 5, 2006.
Franchetti figured that a journalist Author interview with Franchetti.
“Putin has, by chance” Anna Politkovskaya, Putin’s Russia (New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 242–44.
“made her name by writing” Yuri Zarakhovich, Time, April 13, 2003.
“one of the bravest of Russia’s” James Meek, Guardian, October 15, 2004.
“We cannot just sit back” Politkovskaya, Putin’s Russia, 255.
In a 2001 story, she berated Anna Politkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta.
“Paul Lavurda had been deserted” Quote and details from Politkovskaya, Putin’s Russia, 4–13.
In class, Anna’s best friends Author interview with Masha Khaykina, April 15, 2007.
Their relationship puzzled her Author interviews with Khaykina, and with Elena Morozova, May 2, 2007.
Over beers after Anna’s death Author interview with Alexander Politkovsky.
One friend recalled her behaving Author interview with Morozova.
The two married after Information that Anna was pregnant from author interview with Politkovsky.
Her upper-crust parents were so Wedding-day detail and that parents cut off Anna and Alexander financially from author interview with Morozova.
“telling them how to work” Author interview with Morozova.
But Anna was mesmerized Information about Anna’s admiration for Marina Tsvetayeva, from author interview with Politkovsky.
Alexander had earned a toehold Detail on how the couple was scraping by and on Politkovsky’s instant celebrity from author interviews with Morozova and Politkovsky.
The resulting documentary, entitled Marina Goldovskaya, the filmmaker, was a professor of Politkovsky’s at Moscow State University. The documentary was financed by Turner Network Television. Goldovskaya is currently a professor at the University of California, at Los Angeles.
“a crazy mom, very” Author interview with Elena Kudimova, March 26, 2007.
“That note isn’t right” Author interview with Morozova.
As his television career flourished Detail on Alexander’s drinking and Anna’s attitude toward it from author interview with Morozova.
She wanted a career in television like Detail on Anna’s career desires and feeling that Alexander blocked her way from author interview with Morozova.
She was nearly blind without Author interview with Morozova, to whom Anna made the remark about her glasses.
“a dragon in her blood” Author interview with Morozova.
“slaves to tobacco” Anna Politkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta, June 14, 1999.
“infringing on my rights” Author interview with Morozova.
“but next to Anna, I am” Author interview with Yevgenia Albats, April 15, 2007.
“I’m coming by with the dishes” Author interview with Elena Baranovskaya, April 14, 2007.
“Now dead, Vakha lies” Anna Politkovskaya, A Small Corner of Hell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 35.
“psychopathic and extremely stupid” Anna Politkovskaya, A Russian Diary (New York: Random House, 2007), 134, 167–68.
“she started liking it” Author interview with Yuri Kudimov, husband of Politkovskaya’s sister, Elena, April 29, 2007.
“I’m afraid a lot” Anna Politkovskaya interview with Rzeczpospolita (Polish daily newspaper), April 27, 2002.
“the details of the interrogations” Anna Politkovskaya, Guardian, February 27, 2001.
Lapin said he was coming Author interview with Dmitri Muratov, April 19, 2007.
Anna’s editor ordered her to stay Anna Politkovskaya interview with Committee to Protect Journalists, November 13, 2001.
Soon her children Ibid.
“The people in Chechnya are afraid” Anna Politkovskaya, Guardian, February 27, 2001.
In fact, she did not believe Detail on Anna Politkovskaya’s belief that she was safe in Chechnya from author interview with her son, Ilya Politkovsky, April 27, 2007.
She telephoned Akhmed Zakayev Detail on Anna’s reaction from Sergey Sokolov and Dmitry Muratov, Novaya Gazeta, September 4, 2004.
“Are you Anna Politkovskaya?” Author interview with Elena Baranovskaya, to whom Anna recounted the incident.
According to Anna’s account Anna Politkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta, September 9, 2004.
“beat me on the face and” Anna Politkovskaya quoted by News-night, BBC, September 13, 2004.
“almost hopeless” Anna Politkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta, September 9, 2004.
Anna was irritated at her Author interview with Baranovskaya.
She told the onetime KGB officer Author interview with Marina Litvinenko, Alexander’s wife.
“Think about that” Author interview with Kudimov.
“at the point of breaking” Quotes and foreign visitor anecdote from author interview with Morozova. In an interview with the author, Kudimov confirmed the details.
“I am a pariah” Anna Politkovskaya, The Washington Post, October 15, 2006.
“If you want to go on” Anna Politkovskaya, Guardian, September 9, 2004.
“I know this is all going” Author interview with Baranovskaya, to whom Anna made the remark.
“I know I am not going” Author interview with Yevgenia Albats, to whom Anna made the remark.
“feel that this woman knew” Author interview with Mariane Pearl.
“I’m putting this document here” Author interview with Vera Politkovskaya, May 2, 2007.
“whose job, to say it softly” Author interview with Sergei Lapin, April 14, 2007.
“One could hardly believe” Author interview with Vera Politkovskaya.
“She never simply promised” Author interview with Vera Politkovskaya.
“return to a normal life” Author interview with Khaykina.
“Stalin of our times” Anna Politkovskaya interview with RFE-RL on October 5, 2006.
“You are close” Detail of October 7, 2006, and quote from author interview with Vera Politkovskaya.
A man in a baseball cap Details of murder from The Independent (London), October 8, 2006. All credible accounts coincide on these details.
Vera didn’t believe Author interview with Vera Politkovskaya.
Anna’s friend from childhood Detail and quote from author interview with Morozova.
Elena telephoned Masha Khaykina Detail and quote from author interviews with Morozova and Khaykina.
“Oi, Alexander, I have” Author interview with Marina Litvinenko.
Vladimir Putin was at Author interview with Yuri Kudimov, who knew of the birthday party from his KGB friends.
“influence on the country’s” Vladimir Putin, quoted by the BBC News online, October 10, 2006.
Oleg Panfilov, with whom I worked Author interview with Panfilov.
A while after Anna’s death Author interview with Fadeeva.
“My name is Alexander Litvinenko” Alexander Litvinenko, appearance at the Frontline Club, YouTube videotape, October 19, 2006.
“like a person in a bazaar” Author interview with Marina Litvinenko.
His interrogation of a Chechen teenager Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 89–90.
“He thought everyone was working” Author interview with Felshtinsky.
“The view inside our” Litvinenko quoted in The New York Times, December 16, 2004.
“his bosses learned that” Alexander Litvinenko, ChechenPress, July 5, 2006.
Some who knew him said Litvinenko This was a consistent assertion of those close to Anna. One of them was Ilya Politkovsky, Anna’s son, who expressed this opinion in an interview with the author.
He rang the London police British authorities briefly arrested Andrei Ponkin and Alexei Alyokhin after Litvinenko alleged that they had attempted to recruit him to help murder Putin, according to Interfax news service, October 21, 2003. Ponkin, who was one of the FSB whistle-blowers in the famous November 1998 news conference, said he met with Litvinenko and Boris Berezovsky to discuss a business affair, when they were introduced to British intelligence officials who attempted to get them to defect.
Yet he had solid sources Separate author interviews with Marina Litvinenko and Oleg Gordievsky.
Yet Litvinenko found an ear in Background on Litvinenko’s cooperation with British intelligence from a well-connected source who discussed it on condition of anonymity.
“There is no need to analyze” Boris Labusov quoted by Interfax, September 4, 2003.
“Discussing our involvement is really” Boris Labusov quoted by Nezavisimaya Gazeta, October 18, 2004.
“History knows a lot of cases” Boris Labusov quoted by Interfax, October 16, 2004.
FSB marksmen used large photographs The story of Litvinenko’s image being used in target practice by Russian special forces broke in Poland’s Dziennik Online, January 30, 2007.
The Russian embassy left a Author interview with Marina Litvinenko.
“all matters linked to Litvinenko” Mikhail Trepashkin quotes and detail by Mark Franchetti, The Times (London), December 9, 2007.
“Every time I publish something on” Quote and detail from Julia Svetlichnaja, The Observer, December 3, 2006.
“He was probably thinking” Author interview with Felshtinsky.
“I can really do well” Quote and detail from author interview with Marina Litvinenko.
“We ourselves could have” Ibid.
One of his notable Author interview with a source familiar with the firm who asked not to be identified.
“Sasha, if I deposited my” Author interview with Felshtinsky.
“demanded considerable attention” Author interview with Berezovsky.
“something that could wait” Author interview with Felshtinsky.
On January 23, 2006, Berezovsky Description of birthday party from author interview with Felshtinsky; detail on Lugovoi’s relationship with Litvinenko from author interview with Marina Litvinenko.
Litvinenko was an FSB officer In a series of long interviews with Mark Franchetti of The Sunday Times (London), Lugovoi claimed that Litvinenko had called him prior to Berezovsky’s sixtieth birthday seeking a business relationship. Franchetti’s story on the interviews was published in the paper on November 25, 2007.
Lugovoi provided a background report Author interview with a source familiar with the attitude at Titon; the source wished not to be identified.
“those slandering the” Law quoted in “Russia law on killing ‘extremists’ abroad,” BBC online, November 27, 2006.
“traitor” Litvinenko’s former supervisor at the FSB, Alexander Gusak, quoted in “Litvinenko ‘a traitor’—ex-boss,” BBC online, February 7, 2007.
“I was there with him a” Vladimir Bukovsky, speaking in documentary by Jos de Putter, VPRO, 2007.
“He believed that he would” Marina Litvinenko quoted by Kommersant, December 21, 2006.
“I’m British,” he said elatedly Author interview with Felshtinsky; Andrei Nekrasov speaking in VPRO documentary of 2007.
When his father, Valter Valter Litvinenko, quoted in Poison Plot: The Killing of a Spy, CNN, December 4, 2006.
“expecting an attack, an assassination” Yevgeni Limarev, interview with Red TV (Moscow), December 23, 2006.
“Are you in town to see” Author interview with Felshtinsky.
“transfer 100,000 pounds” Quote and detail from Spiegel Online, December 11, 2006.
“I’m about to get information” Akhmed Zakayev, speaking in VPRO documentary of 2007.
Litvinenko had served as a source Maxim Litvinenko, Alexander Litvinenko’s brother, quoted by Reuters, January 5, 2007.
Scaramella handed over The e-mail was provided to Scaramella by Yevgeny Limarev, a Russian émigré who lives in France.
who just the night before Author interview with Berezovsky.
The two had agreed that Litvinenko’s cut is according to Andrei Lugovoi, quoted by Mark Franchetti in The Sunday Times.
“This is the No. 1 security issue” Peter Castenfelt quoted in USA Today, July 28, 2006. The ads appeared in the newspapers on the previous day.
He turned into the Pine Bar Detail on Norberto Andrade and the serving of Litvinenko’s tea from Evening Standard, November 6, 2007. Detail on the drinks and cigar smoking from Spiegel Online, December 11, 2006. Detail on Lugovoi’s family’s plans from The Washington Post, December 13, 2006.
He went to bed Detail on Litvinenko’s condition from Marina Litvinenko interview with Natalia Gevorkian, Kommersant, December 21, 2006. In terms of the poisoning itself, the interview was, in my opinion, the most complete of dozens in which Marina participated. In its main points, it coincided with the other interviews she gave. Since the thrust of her comments was virtually identical in all her interviews, I relied on those published accounts and skipped over the subject of the poisoning entirely when we twice met, so as to avoid repetition. This allowed me to cover topics that other interviewers had not.
“Look,” he told the reporter Alexander Litvinenko interviewed by BBC Russian Service, November 11, 2006.
“It was so strange” Marina Litvinenko interview with Kommersant.
“Ex-spy’s poisoning bears hallmarks”The Daily Telegraph, November 21, 2006.
“Different name, same tactics”Guardian, November 21, 2006.
“Exact Cause of Ex-K.G.B. Agent’s”The New York Times, November 22, 2006.
“looked just like a ghost” Andrei Nekrasov, quoted in VPRO documentary of 2007.
“like a seventy-year-old” Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 329.
“Oh, Marinochka, I love you” Marina Litvinenko interview with Kommersant.
“Father, I’ve converted. I’m a Muslim” Valter Litvinenko quoted in VPRO documentary of 2007.
“Come quickly” Marina Litvinenko interview with Kommersant.
“You have shown yourself to” Alexander Goldfarb reading Alexander Litvinenko’s statement, November 23, 2006.
“You have to understand that” Marina Litvinenko interview with Kommersant.
“Marina, this is Andrei Lugovoi” Ibid.
“He joined the FSB from” Author interview with Josef Linder, April 18, 2007.
“Negative. The most negative.” Author interview with Mikhail Golovatov, April 17, 2007.
“offer no indication that this” Vladimir Putin, official transcript of news conference following a Russia–European Union summit meeting, November 24, 2006.
Novelist Martin Cruz Smith Cruz Smith quoted in The Wall Street Journal Europe, December 29, 2006.
“Let’s get one thing” Author interview with Boris Volodarsky, February 28, 2007.
“a typical KGB operation” Author interview with Oleg Gordievsky.
“It’s quite possible each guy” Author interview with Professor Nick Priest. I interviewed Priest numerous times in person and by phone. This interview took place February 15, 2007.
“That’s Russian” Author interview with a former MI6 agent who asked not to be identified by name because of a condition placed upon him when retiring from the agency, February 9, 2007.
“Lugovoi has often asked me” Mark Franchetti, The Sunday Times (London), November 25, 2007.
As Vladimir Putin’s presidency Detail on the dive from National Geographic News online, August 3, 2007.
“The incumbent president is an” Dmitri Medvedev quoted in Financial Times, March 24, 2008.
As the story goes Some said that in effect Putin himself was chairman of Gazprom, pulling the strings behind the scenes. That may have been true—outsiders could not know for certain what went on in the Kremlin.
“no state can be pleased” Dmitri Medvedev quoted in Financial Times, March 24, 2008.
But Putin remarked publicly Quoted in the Daily Telegraph, March 3, 2008.
And Medvedev agreed Quoted in Financial Times, March 24, 2008.
“Russia needs the maximum” Dmitri Medvedev quoted in Financial Times, March 24, 2008.
“It was completely incredible” Quotes from author interview with Marina Litvinenko.
“Marina is making money from” Quote from Sonya Litvinenko interview with Anna Chernyakovskaya, author’s assistant.
“to speak with her right” Author interview with Marina Litvinenko.
By March 2008, Marina Detail and quote from Marina Litvinenko from The Times (London), March 27, 2008.
In the same vein, Alex Goldfarb Detail and quote from Alex Goldfarb from Reuters, February 28, 2008.
“He had no reason to” Ilya Bulavinov, Kommersant, April 10, 2007.
“I couldn’t decide if he” Yelena Tregubova quoted by BBC News online, November 21, 2003.
“They would have found a way” Yelena Tregubova quoted by the Daily Mail (London), April 4, 2008.
But her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta Detail and quote from Novaya Gazeta, April 2, 2008.
Before Anna’s murder, a doctor Detail on how Vera decided to name her daughter from author’s interview with Vera Politkovskaya.