Family of the poisoned former Russian
state security service officer Alexander Litvinenko addressed the American
authorities with the request for political asylum in the Unied States, however
received official refusal. This was told by the widow of the ex-FSB
Lieutenant-Colonel, who died from radioactive poisoning in London, in November, 2006.
Marina Litvinenko is in Israel now and
she gave an interview to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
The interview on four full pages of the
paper is describing private life of the late Alexander Litvinenko, his conflict
with the former leadership of the FSB, the flight from Russia, and
mostly – the poisoning and the last weeks of his life.
Almost all the information, voiced by
Marina Litvinenko has been known already earlier, except for the story about
the flight of the family from Russia
in 2000.
According to Marina Litvinenko, her
husband did not coordinate his departure with her. He had left Russia secretly, through the territory of North Caucasus.
Further, under the insistance of her husband, Marina and their son Anatoly had
purchased a tourist trip to Spain,
and from there they had gone to Turkey
where they were met by the father of the family.
In Turkey Litvinenko had addressed the United States
embassy with a request for political asylum. According to Marina, the received refusal was motivated as
follows: «As we are in the pre-election campaign process, we can not interfere
in such delicate affairs».
According to advice of confidants of the
disgraced Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, Litvinenko and his family arrived
to Britain
in November, 2000, and in May of the next year they received the status of
political refugees there. Marina also told that
a few weeks prior to the poisoning, her husband officially became a citizen of
the United Kingdom,
the Axis News reported.
A Spanish paper, El Semanal Digital earlier reported that Mr
Livinenko fled from Russia
to England not through Turkey but through Israel
where he lived for some time in Jerusalem
and was debriefed by Israeli secret services.
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