All news on the topic: Alexander Litvinenko

Vladimir Putin's Lefortovo Prison on the outskirts of Moscow is where the Russian President's forces keep terrorist suspects, so-called spies and high-profile ex-officials

A fire broke out at a mansion under construction in Surrey on September 23. Eight crews from Surrey Fire and Rescue Service rushed to the scene, but the property was destroyed

The KGB's top-secret facility in Kazan, east of Moscow, targeted young men and women from impoverished parts of Russia and trained them in Marxism, spycraft and seduction

Russian politician Elvira Vikhareva became ill in November last year with muscle spasms and severe stomach pains - it has since emerged that she had been poisoned after criticising the Kremlin

Highgate Cemetery in North London is the final resting place for dozens of famous people such as George Michael but also Karl Marx and poisoned Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko - the graves become damaged during extreme cold

Ukraine-born Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, switched cars seven times and navigated her route to freedom using the stars during her escape from Russia after she interrupted a live TV broadcast to call out Vladimir Putin

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who has advocated using nuclear weapons against Ukraine, is rumoured to have been poisoned and is being treated in the United Arab Emirates

Rebels opposing Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia have accused the Kremlin leader of dragging his country to the edge of civil war as they vote for a Revolution Act aimed at tearing him down

Vladimir Osechkin knows the risks of defying Vladimir Putin and the Russian state after would-be assassins invaded his home and tried to kill his family before he escaped to France in 2015

Former FSB spy Boris Karpichkov, who received a sinister death threat, believes neither the police nor MI5 can protect him, claiming they have done little to protect him when similar threats arrived

Met Counter Terrorism Command officers raced to Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 on December 29 after a package set off alarms over "contaminated' material- which turned out to be uranium