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Alexander Litvinenko

1962 - 2006

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Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (30 August 1962 – 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime. A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he advised British intelligence and coined the term "mafia state". In November 1998, Litvinenko and several other FSB officers publicly accused their superiors of ordering the assassination of the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko was arrested the following March on charges of exceeding the authority of his position. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Litvinenko is the 1,057th most popular writer (down from 794th in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Russia (down from 267th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian spy and KGB officer who defected to the United Kingdom in 2000. He was later accused of being involved in the death of Russian oligarch and Kremlin critic, Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko died in 2006 from poisoning by radioactive polonium-210.

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Among writers, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 1,057 out of 7,302. Before him are Johannes Tauler, Charles Nodier, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Ernst Toller, Alfred Brehm, and Gottfried von Strassburg. After him are Sulpicius Severus, Adalbert Stifter, Radoje Domanović, Robert Graves, Brian O'Nolan, and Clifford D. Simak.

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Among people born in 1962, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 34. Before him are Jon Bon Jovi, Steve Irwin, Wesley Snipes, Izzy Stradlin, Carles Puigdemont, and Michelle Yeoh. After him are Clyde Drexler, Viktor Tsoi, Jeff Bennett, Jordan Belfort, Christiane F., and Suzy Amis Cameron. Among people deceased in 2006, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 53. Before him are Ed Bradley, Ahmet Ertegun, Nam June Paik, John Kenneth Galbraith, Shelley Winters, and P. W. Botha. After him are James Van Allen, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prince George William of Hanover, Murray Bookchin, Hugh Thompson Jr., and Ta Mok.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 358 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Gordievsky (1938), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), Lovis Corinth (1858), Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669), Leonid Govorov (1897), and Karl Bryullov (1799). After him are Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Lila Kedrova (1918), Anton Arensky (1861), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Litvinenko ranks 40. Before him are Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Henri Troyat (1911), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), and Edith Södergran (1892). After him are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), and Velimir Khlebnikov (1885).

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