The widow of Alexander Litvinenko filed a lawsuit against Russia for 3.5 million euros in the ECHR

The widow of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko Marina filed a lawsuit against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights. It is reported by The Guardian.

Litvinenko requires compensation in the amount of 3.5 million euros for her husband’s poisoning with a radioactive substance. She requires about two million euros in connection with the loss of earnings, which her husband and she would receive thanks to her work. Another 1.5 million - as penal losses awarded to the defendant in a indicative order in order to keep him from similar crimes.

The widow invites the court to recognize the relationship between the murders and attempts, allegedly related to the Russian special services: the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoning of Sergey and Yulia Skripyle in Salisbury in 2018, as well as the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. According to her, people who committed a crime are unlikely to be sent to court, but "someone must bear responsibility for this."

“Almost 14 years have passed since my husband was killed. We had to fight to achieve a public investigation. It took a lot of time to bring this case to court. It was a state crime. Now we are talking not only about the poisoning of my husband, but also by Sergey and Julia Skripale, as well as the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny. It was a chemical weapon, forbidden weapons of destruction, ”Litvinenko said.

Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who received political asylum in the UK, died in London on November 23, 2006. The investigation of the British side established that he was poisoned by Polonia and the ex-office of the KGB and State Duma deputy Andrei Lugova and entrepreneur Dmitry Kovtun, whom he met shortly before his death, were involved in this.

According to investigators, the murder of Litvinenko could be approved by Vladimir Putin and Nikolai Patrushev, who then held the post of director of the FSB. The Russian Foreign Ministry argued that the investigation of the death of Litvinenko had a "pronounced political background", and the process "was not transparent for the Russian side or the public."

In 2002, the book “FSB explodes Russia” was published, it was written by a former employee of the Russian intelligence services Alexander Litvinenko and historian Yuri Feltishinsky. The book speaks of a conspiracy version of a series of terrorist attacks in Russia in 1999. In 2015, the publication was recognized as extremist.