In November 2006 Alexander Litvinenko met Russian agents in the Pine Bar at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair. He drank tea laced with radioactive polonium-210. Three weeks later he was dead. Police charged Andrey Lugovoy with the murder. But he had returned to Russia. Lugovoy, once a KGB and FSB goon, is now a deputy in the Russian parliament.
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A photograph lies beside the gravestone of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in Highgate Cemetery on Dec. 1, 2020 in north London.
