A Russian website has suggested that it was the West that orchestrated the poisoning death of a Russian whistleblower, Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London of polonium poisoning in 2006, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The information originally was analyzed by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
“A January 22, 2016, article in the pro-regime Russian website Pravda.Ru responds to the British public inquiry into the murder of former Russian spy Aleksandr Litvinenko, which named as the prime suspects former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoy and former Russian military officer Dmitry Kovtun, and stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘probably approved’ Litvinenko’s assassination,” MEMRI reported.
“The article describes the inquiry as part of the West’s ‘Russophobic Bull—- Machine’ whose function is to malign Russia and its leaders by accusing them of crimes they did not commit. It suggests that the murder was in fact carried out by the U.S., and states that ‘the whole of western policy, based upon deals with terrorists and lies, has one objective: to contain Russia through subjugation, subversion and juvenile attempts at humiliation,’” the MEMRI report found.
Multiple outlets, including Forbes, had reported only a couple days earlier that a British court found, “using civil standards of proof, that Vladimir Putin approved the murder of a Russian whistleblower, Alexander Litvinenko, in London.”
The report said, “The Litvinenko case comes as close as possible to proving Putin’s guilt. It identifies the assassins beyond a reasonable doubt and proves that Putin’s KGB state has officially shielded the murderers and has obstructed justice, making Putin a likely accessory after the fact. Putin’s KGB state knows (if it wishes to) who its political murderers are. The long list of unsolved political assassinations therefore proves the Kremlin does not want any of these cases solved. As the list of murders has grown without resolution, the court of international public opinion understands that the state murder is a standard instrument of Putin’s KGB state.”
For the rest of this report, and more, please go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The report explained, “On January 21, Sir Robert Owen, presiding over a London-High-Court inquiry into the death of British citizen/Russian defector, Alexander Litvinenko, concluded that: ‘I am sure that Mr. Lugovoy and Mr. Kovtun placed the polonium 210 [poison] in the teapot at the Pine Bar [of London’s Millennium Hotel] on 1 November 2006. I am sure that they did this with the intention of poisoning Mr Litvinenko. I am sure that Mr. Lugovoy and Mr. Kovtun were acting on behalf of others when they poisoned Mr. Litvinenko….When Mr. Lugovoy poisoned Mr. Litvinenko, it is probable that he did so under the direction of the FSB. I would add that I regard that as a strong probability. …The FSB operation to kill Mr. Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev [head of the FSB] and also by President Putin.’ (Emphasis added.)”
MEMRI reported on what was said on the Pravda.Ru website, a pro-government site that is considered a successor to Pravda, the official mouthpiece of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party. It was started by top members of the older Pravda’s editorial staff who left Pravda in 1999.
“The wheels and cogs of the Russophobic Bull—- Machine are turning again, this time with spectacular insinuations that President Vladimir Putin is a murderer by proxy…,” the site said.
It said there’s no evidence.
“In legal terms, this is utter, pure and unadulterated nonsense. Either he was murdered on the orders of President Putin or he was not, and this being the case, in the absence of any clear proof, in any civilized state of law, he was not, for the accused is innocent until proven guilty. Where is the evidence linking President Putin to this supposed murder with Polonium 210?” the site said.
For the rest of this report, and more, please go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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