UK deaths linked to Russia

Russia is suspected of having organized at least 14 killings in Britain over the last two decades, according to a BuzzFeed investigation

1. Georgi Markov, Sep 1978
Bulgarian dissident killed after unidentified man fires ricin-laced pellet into his leg from tip of modified umbrella on London’s Waterloo Bridge.
Case never solved

2. Alexander Litvinenko, Nov 2006
KGB defector who fled to UK after alleging corruption against secret service colleagues, dies after drinking tea laced with polonium-210 at London hotel. British inquiry concludes in 2016 that Vladimir Putin probably approved his assassination

3. Alexander Perepilichny, Nov 2012
Businessman who sought refuge in Britain in 2009 after helping Swiss investigation into $230m Russian money- laundering scheme, collapses while jogging near home in Surrey. Death originally attributed to natural causes but traces of toxic plant Gelsemium Elegans are later found in his stomach

4. Boris Berezovsky, Mar 2013
Exiled Russian tycoon, who waged high- profile media battle against one-time
protegé Putin for more than 10 years, found hanging from shower rail at his Berkshire home in apparent suicide. Postmortem unable to rule out murder

5. Scot Young, Dec 2014
Associate of Berezovsky, and fixer to world’s super-rich, found impaled on iron fence after falling from fourth-floor flat in central London.
Coroner rules there is insufficient evidence of suicide

6. Sergei Skripal, Mar 2018
Former Russian intelligence colonel convicted of spying for UK, found unconscious in Salisbury.
He and daughter critically ill in hospital after being exposed to unknown substance


UK
Salisbury
LONDON
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