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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

Alexander Litvinenko

In this Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 file photo, People gather in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, portrait in center, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Once deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, Nemtsov was a popular politician and harsh critic of Putin. On a cold February night in 2015, he was gunned down by assailants on a bridge adjacent to the Kremlin as he walked with his girlfriend in a death that sent shockwaves across the country. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky, file)
August 26, 2023, 3:01 am
Nerve agents, poison and window falls: How Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed
Litvinenko, Navalny, Nemtsov, Politkovskaya, Prigozhin… Over the years, a stream of political critics, turncoat spies, investigative journalists have been murdered or assaulted
By Dasha Litvinova
In this May 10, 2002, file photo former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is photographed at his home in London. (AP Photo/Alistair Fuller)
September 21, 2021, 6:05 pm
European court rules Russia responsible for killing of defector Litvinenko
Former KGB agent died in London in 2006 after drinking tea laced with radioactive material; UK charging 3rd suspect in 2018 nerve agent attack on ex-Russian agent Sergei Skripal
By AP
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a demonstration in Moscow, September 29, 2019. (Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP /File)
August 24, 2020, 10:06 pm
Berlin hospital: Russian dissident Navalny’s test results ‘indicate poisoning’
Contradicting Russian doctors, who blamed a metabolic disorder, German medical officials say Putin critic was probably hit by substance that targets central nervous system
By Femke COLBORNE
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center on stretcher, is transported to a German special medical plane at an airport in Omsk, Russia, Aug. 22, 2020 (AP Photo/Elena Latypova)
August 22, 2020, 7:54 am
Plane carrying comatose Putin critic Alexei Navalny departs Russia for Germany
Kremlin denies resistance to transfer was political; dissident to be treated at specialist facility after suspected poisoning
By daniel kozin and DARIA LITVINOVA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on May 9, 2018. Both men are wearing the orange and black St. George ribbon (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
August 21, 2018, 11:34 am
Is Putin’s Kremlin subverting Israeli democracy? A Russia expert thinks so
A devastating, complacency-shattering interview with Ilya Zaslavskiy, one of the world’s leading experts on Moscow’s overt and covert designs on the West
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin (l) and Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, on January 26, 2017. (CC BY Kremlin.ru, Wikimedia Commons)
March 12, 2018, 10:52 pm
Russia says May’s spy statement a ‘provocation’
Moscow rejects accusation of responsibility for attack on Sergei Skripal, likening it to previous attacks against Russians on UK soil
By AFP
Sergei Skripal speaks to his lawyer from behind bars in Moscow, August 9, 2006 (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
March 11, 2018, 3:49 am
Spy poisoning is latest in string of suspicious cases in UK, US
Lawmakers and a former top law enforcement official say nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal fits a pattern, and are calling for a high-level investigation
By Gregory Katz
Members of the Falcon Squadron, Royal Tank Regiment, at Winterbourne Gunner, southern England, conducting final preparation and training before deploying in support of the civil authorities in Salisbury city centre, Friday March 9, 2018 (Cpl Pete Brown/Ministry of Defence via AP)
March 11, 2018, 3:43 am
UK military chemical experts aid police in spy poison probe
180 marines, soldiers and air force personnel called in to help with the probe and to remove vehicles that might be contaminated
By Jill Lawless
Former Russian military intelligence Colonel Sergei Skripal attends a hearing at the Moscow District Military Court in Moscow on August 9, 2006.(AFP/Kommersant Photo/Yuri Senatorov)
March 8, 2018, 7:10 pm
UK: Nerve agent attack on Russian ex-spy was ‘brazen and reckless’
Home Secretary Amber Rudd vows to ‘act without hesitation as facts become clearer’ in targeting, possibly by Moscow, of Sergei Skripal on British soil
By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless
British Police Community Support Officers stand on duty outside a residential property in Salisbury, southern England, on March 6, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Chris J Ratcliffe)
March 8, 2018, 7:55 am
British police hunt culprit in Russian ex-spy’s poisoning
Officers confirm nerve agent was used in attack on Sergei Skripal, also placing daughter, police officer in comas
By Alice Ritchie
Former Russian military intelligence Colonel Sergei Skripal attends a hearing at the Moscow District Military Court in Moscow on August 9, 2006.(AFP/Kommersant Photo/Yuri Senatorov)
March 7, 2018, 2:14 pm
UK government holds urgent meeting on poisoning of ex-Russian spy
Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia in critical condition after exposure to unknown substance; counter-terrorism cops investigating
By Alice Ritchie
Sergei Skripal speaks to his lawyer from behind bars in Moscow, August 9, 2006 (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
March 5, 2018, 9:50 pm
Ex-Russian spy in critical condition after exposure to ‘unknown substance’
Sergei Skripal, who fed info to British intelligence, found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury along with another woman
By Raphael Satter and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler speaking to a Knesset committee in Jerusalem on March 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 30, 2017, 4:18 pm
Saying he was poisoned in Russia, ex-Canadian justice minister fights a Kremlin bullying campaign
Irwin Cotler believes he was targeted during a 2006 official visit to Moscow, and says dozens of other journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, opposition leaders and dissidents have been as well
By Simona Weinglass
A still image from the film 'Bridge of Spies,' which tells the story of a Cold War exchange of agents between the US and Soviet Russia (screen capture: YouTube)
December 30, 2016, 6:46 pm
From dead drops to hacking: Moscow spies on world stage
A brief account of some of the most brazen Soviet and Russian espionage over the last few decades
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks as Sergei Ivanov, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration looks at him in the Kremlin, Moscow, January 21, 2016. (AFP/POOL)
January 21, 2016, 7:06 pm
Kremlin dismisses British Litvinenko inquiry as a ‘joke’
UK inquiry’s findings that Russian leader likely involved in murder of critic attributed to ‘fine British humor’
By AFP
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