News Exercise #122

1. What is the supposed reason for Russia wanting Litvinenko dead?
He was an intelligence officer, and it was thought that had betrayed his country and the FSB.
2. How was he killed?
A radioactive substance, polonium, had been put into his teapot in a hotel in London.
3. What evidence lead the police to believe that Putin ordered the kill?
Because the murder weapon was radioactive, it left a trail from the hotel. across London, onto the aeroplane that had been used by the two suspects from Moscow.