The terrible, terrible Litvinenko story reminds me of something my old friend and former colleague John Sweeney wrote in 2000. It was an investigation into the Moscow apartment block bombings that pointed the finger at Vladimir Putin. He couldn’t get the piece in his own newspaper, the Observer, at the time so he wrote it for the magnificent US website cryptome. It made for chilling reading back then, but even more so now.
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