Blowing up Russia; the secret plot to bring back KGB terror; acts of terror, abductions, and contract killings organized by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.9781594032011 Blowing up Russia; the secret plot to bring back KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. terror; acts of terror, abductions, and contract killings organized by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation The FSB (Federal Security Service) (Russian: ФСБ, Федера́льная слу́жба . Litvinenko, Alexander and Yuri Felshtinsky Yuri Felshtinsky (b. 1956, Moscow) is a Russian historian living in United States. He immigrated in USA from the Soviet Union in 1978. He graduated from Brandeis University and got his PhD in history from Rutgers University. . Encounter Books 2007 322 pages $25.95 Hardcover JN6695 Litvinenko was poisoned with a lethal dose lethal dose n. Abbr. LD The dose of a chemical or biological preparation that is likely to cause death. of Polonium-210 in London in November 2006. In 1998 he disclosed that as a lieutenant-colonel he had been given unlawful orders, among them one to assassinate as·sas·si·nate tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. Russia's first billionaire. He was arrested and acquitted, charged again, sought political asylum in Britain in 2001, and became a British citizen less than a month before he was killed. He and historian Felshtinsky, who emigrated from Russia to the US in 1978, recount activities of the Russian Security Service during the 1990s. Translated from the Russian by Geoffrey Andrews and Company. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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