In this very useful book media analyst William Dunkerley exposes many of the lies about the death in 2006 of Alexander Litvinenko. He points out that the media story is that President Putin was behind Litvinenko’s murder and that Litvinenko was a spy who had worked for the KGB.
But every part of this story is false, as Dunkerley proves. He shows that Litvinenko was not a spy and never worked for the KGB.
Dunkerley points out that no coroner has ever ruled that Litvinenko’s death was murder. No death certificate has been issued. The coroner’s inquest of 2011 focused not on determining the cause of death but on finding the murderer. Yet British law actually does not allow a coroner to decide criminal liability. That is the job of police and prosecutors. The coroner’s duty, as then Home Secretary Theresa May had to remind the coroner, is to ‘ascertain who the deceased was, and how, when, and where he came by his death’. Nor did the coroner find that polonium poisoning was the cause of death.
Litvinenko told the BBC on 11 November 2006 that he believed that Mario Scaramella had poisoned him. Alexander Goldfarb, an associate of the late Boris Berezovsky, the fugitive Russian oligarch then living in London, claimed that Litvinenko dictated to him a deathbed statement accusing President Putin of having him killed. But Goldfarb later confessed that he himself wrote the statement, not Litvinenko.
The PR firm Bell Pottinger collaborated with Berezovsky in his media assault on President Putin. It foisted Berezovsky’s false poisoning story on the media. A High Court judge ruled in the Berezovsky v. Abramovich case that Berezovsky was ‘inherently unreliable’. There is no evidence for any of Berezovsky’s claims.
Bell Pottinger also offered up to 100,000 euros to artists to state their support for Pussy Riot. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot’s leader, told the media that revolution in Russia is their main goal. It was Berezovsky’s too.
Prime Minister David Cameron later restarted the witch-hunt to blame Russia. The British state and its tame media used the Litvinenko story to whip up hatred of President Putin and of Russia as a whole.
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