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How Russians such as Alexander Litvinenko took on their government

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev cross the Bornholmer Bruecke in Berlin

In 1998 Alexander Litvinenko — then an agent of the Federal Security Service (FSB) — and four other masked FSB agents held a press conference to say that they had been ordered to carry out assassinations. Full Article at Times Online

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