NEWS POINT:
Alexander Litvinenko-who was responsible?
Introduction
This news point is about one [1]Russian Alexander Litvinenko. The death in London of former[2] Russian spy has brought many opinions [3]in the press all over the world. Some ones [4]consider this death as an attempt to put pressure on Moscow; others see it as a warning of the 'long hand of the Kremlin'.
The Sources
1 BBC Best Link: News - Obituary: Alexander Litvinenko
2 BBC Learning English | Litvinenko poisoning
3 BBC News - Davis: Tough line on Litvinenko
4 BBC News - Litvinenko: Reid statement in full
He was born in the city of Voronezh, in Russia. Mr Litvinenko first became a security agent in the FSB, in the Soviet-era KG[5]B, after transferring from the military. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. His points of view have not been corresponding [6]to those of Vladimir Putin, the head of the FSB, in the late 1990s, because of corruption in the organisation.
He was a specialist
in fighting organised crime, so the nature of his job meant he would certainly
have made enemies. One of his friend [7]said: 
"He headed up one of the
internal investigations[8] branches that was
looking into the corruption and coercion that was[9] going on within
the Russian intelligence service so he made a lot of enemies way back
then."
Mr Litvinenko was investigating the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, who was dead
two months ago in Moscow. Mr Litvinenko wrote a book in which he blamed Federal
Security Service (FSB) agents in Russia in [10]bombings of the
apartments in 1999 in the country that [11]killed more than
300 people. Later he wrote Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within, in which he
said that it was FSB agents and not Chechen rebels who carried out the
apartment block bombings.
The Russian government has always maintained the blasts were the work of Chechen separatists. Later Mr Litvinenko was arrested on charges of abusing his office, and spent nine months in a remand centre before being acquitted. Complaining of persecution, in 2000 Mr Litvinenko arrives [12]in the UK where he has got[13] asylum. Even after settling in an unnamed London suburb, the former spy has [14]been constantly changing his contact details. The Times newspaper reported in May 2005 that someone had tried to kill him with petrol bombs through his front door. Despite all this, in an interview four years ago, Mr Litvinenko said: "I believe Russia will rise again and that I will manage to return again to the motherland and Moscow."
Few days [15]before his poising[16] Mr.Litvinenko had an appointments with 2 Russians with whom had a [17]dinner. Soon after that meeting he has got [18]the symptoms of the poisoning.
He has spent [19]a week in the hospital [20]fighting for his life. He died on 23 November 2006. In the late afternoon of Thursday 23 November the police confirmed that the reason of [21]Mr Litvinenko’s death was significant [22]quantity of the radioactive isotope Polonium-210.
Personal comments
In his statement Alexander Litvinenko blames Russian President Vladimir Putin for the poison he believes took his life. But will we ever know with certainty who was responsible? In my opinion its very difficult to identify the responsibility of[23] this death as one [24]the hand it is concerned the political affaires [25]and on the other hand the activity of Mr Litvinenko itself. But we may ask [26]why in most such cases its [27]linked with totalitarism [28]of Kremlin?