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Alexander Litvinenko

1962 - 2006

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Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (30 August 1962 or 4 December 1962 – 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime. A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he advised British intelligence and coined the term "mafia state". In November 1998, Litvinenko and several other FSB officers publicly accused their superiors of ordering the assassination of the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Litvinenko has received more than 4,517,648 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Alexander Litvinenko is the 795th most popular writer (down from 729th in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Russia (down from 258th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian spy and KGB officer who defected to the United Kingdom in 2000. He was later accused of being involved in the death of Russian oligarch and Kremlin critic, Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko died in 2006 from poisoning by radioactive polonium-210.

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Notable Works

FSB vzryvaet Rossii︠u︡
2002
LPG--Lubi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Prestupnai︠a︡ Gruppirovka
2002
Wysadzic Rosje
2007
The Age of Putin
Abuse of administrative power
Previously published as The age of assassins.
2012
Blowing up Russia
History
Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return to the terror that was the hallmark of the KGB. Vividly written and based on Litvinenko's 20 years of insider knowledge of Russian spy campaigns, Blowing Up Russia describes how the successor of the KGB fabricated terrorist attacks and launched a war. Writing about Litvinenko, the surviving co-author recounts how the banning of the book in Russia led to three earlier deaths.
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 795 out of 7,302. Before him are Jin Yong, Marie Mancini, Wilhelm Hauff, Leon Uris, Georges Bernanos, and Marie d'Agoult. After him are Cesare Pavese, Ibycus, Colleen McCullough, Dio Chrysostom, Maya Angelou, and Pietro Bembo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 17. Before him are Ralph Fiennes, Olga Tokarczuk, Sandra, Abdullah II of Jordan, David Fincher, and Antony Blinken. After him are Aleksandr Dugin, Carlos Sainz, Mohammed Omar, Michelle Yeoh, Steve Carell, and Wesley Snipes. Among people deceased in 2006, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 36. Before him are Clay Regazzoni, Robert Altman, Lennart Meri, Raymond Davis Jr., Alida Valli, and Clifford Geertz. After him are Markus Wolf, Bülent Ecevit, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, John Kenneth Galbraith, Shohei Imamura, and Zoia Ceaușescu.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 267 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Blok (1880), Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Mykola Azarov (1947), Natalia Goncharova (1881), and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916). After him are Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Lyudmila Putina (1958), and Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 30. Before him are Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Ivan Krylov (1769), Arthur Adamov (1908), and Alexander Blok (1880). After him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), and Nikolay Karamzin (1766).

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