Alexander Litvinenko

Also known as Aleksandr Valterovich Litvinenko, Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko

ex-KGB agent and FSB lieutenant-colonel (1962-2006)

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Alexander Litvinenko was a Russian security agent who defected to the West and became a vocal critic of the Kremlin before his death in 2006. His poisoning with a radioactive substance remains a controversial international incident that raised questions about state involvement and highlighted tensions between Russia and the West.

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Born: 1962
Died: 2006
Works: 7

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Lubyanka Criminal Group
FSB vzryvaet Rossii︠u︡
The Age of Putin
LPG--Lubi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Prestupnai︠a︡ Gruppirovka
Neotravlennoe slovo

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In the Grip of Gazprom — Self (archive footage)2023
Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning — Self (archive footage)2022
Spycraft — Self2021
Poisoned by Polonium — Self (archive footage)2007

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,596x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,537x
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,133x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,061x
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,526x

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date of birth: 1962-12-04
date of death: 2006-11-23
Commons category: Alexander Litvinenko
name in native language: Александр Литвиненко

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Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (30 August 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. Litvinenko was arrested the following March on charges of exceeding the authority of his position. He was acquitted in November 1999 but re-arrested before the charges were again dismissed in 2000. He fled with his family to London and was granted asylum in the United Kingdom, where he worked as a journalist, writer and consultant for the British intelligence services.