Public enquiry into death of former KGB agent Litvinenko to begin next week in London

Nine years after former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in a London hotel, a public inquiry into his death finally begins in the British capital next week. Lawyers for Litvinenko’s widow have described his passing as Russian “state-sponsored nuclear terrorism.“ Kremlin-critic Litvinenko, who had been granted British citizenship, died after drinking tea poisoned with a rare radioactive isotope in November 2006 and from his deathbed he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his murde