The mysterious, violent and unsolved deaths of Putin’s foes and critics
Alexei Navalny is latest of Putin’s opponents to have died over course of Russian leader’s nearly 25 years in power
August 2023
Twenty years of ruthlessness: how Russia has silenced Putin’s opponents
From poisonings to shootings to falls from windows and now possibly plane crashes, Kremlin has been accused of numerous lethal attacks
December 2022
Litvinenko review – this woeful David Tennant drama is nigh-on pointless
The seven best shows to stream this week
Litvinenko to Dance Monsters: the seven best shows to stream this week
Russian army ‘came knocking’ to recruit son of slain spy Alexander Litvinenko
How the Kremlin tried to conscript me for its war, even though it murdered my father
Anatoly Litvinenko
June 2022
Putin's Russia: dictator syndrome and the rise of a 'mafia state' – video
Alexander Litvinenko assassination suspect dies of Covid
March 2022
A familiar plot but truth may never be known about latest ‘Russian poisoning’
Analysis: There is a murky history behind the apparent targeting of Roman Abramovich and two Ukrainian negotiators
October 2021
Benedict Cumberbatch to play poisoned Soviet spy in HBO series
The actor will star in Londongrad as Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned by a radioactive isotope in 2006
September 2021
David Tennant to play poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko
Russia responsible for Alexander Litvinenko death, European court rules
July 2021
The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko review – a heartfelt if flawed new opera
Former banker Anthony Bolton duly invests and borrows for his opera based on Marina Litvinenko’s account of her husband’s murder
May 2021
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in audio: British Scandal; Victoria Derbyshire sitting in for Jeremy Vine
A strange new podcast attempts to mix humour with the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
November 2020
Marina Litvinenko submits €3.5m ECHR claim against Russia
Exclusive: widow seeks punitive damages for 2006 murder and payment of lost income
February 2020
Opera about Alexander Litvinenko murder to premiere in UK in July
Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2020: Jeremy Wikeley on A Very Expensive Poison
November 2019
Why Boris Johnson must publish Russia report
Letters: A Tory PM is suppressing evidence by the intelligence agencies about the activities of hostile forces, says Richard Norton-Taylor, and Adrian Cosker says there will be a permanent question mark over the validity of recent elections
Russian meddling report – dissident's widow goes to law
Marina Litvinenko, whose dissident husband Alex was murdered in London, 2006, to try to force Boris Johnson’s government to publish document
The toxic relationship between Britain and Russia has to be exposed
Oliver Bullough
Russian money is poisoning the UK, yet Boris Johnson continues to suppress a report into this matter, says Oliver Bullough, the author of Moneyland
