Sherlock and FSB-Schnick in one bottle: Cumberbatch will play a Russian in the new HBO series

The HBO streaming service will film the series "Londongrad". In it, the famous British actor Benedict Cumberbatch will play the role of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with polonium. Writes about this in more detail with the BBC.

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The series will be based on the book The Terminal Spy by British journalist Alan Cowell. It tells the story of the poisoning of a secret service officer Litvinenko in London in 2006.

The screenwriter will be David Scarpa and the director will be Oscar winner Brian Vogel, who made the documentary Icarus about the doping scandal in Russian sports. Cumberbatch will also act as the executive producer of the project.

The British actor, among other things, is known for his role as Sherlock Holmes in the TV series "Sherlock", as well as for the films "The Imitation Game", "Doctor Strange", "1917" and other films. Cumberbatch is a BAFTA and Emmy Award winner.

Death of Litvinenko

Former KGB and FSB officer Litvinenko died in London in 2006 six years after he fled Russia to the UK over a conflict with the secret services.

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Litvinenko argued that the FSB could have been involved in the 1999 house bombings in Russia, and wrote a book about this, The FSB Blows Up Russia. The Kremlin put her on the list of extremist materials.

An investigation by the British authorities revealed that Mr Litvinenko was poisoned with a rare radioactive substance, polonium-210. The perpetrators of the crime were Litvinenko's former FSB colleagues Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi.

Britain demanded that the Russian authorities extradite Lugovoy to stand trial on murder charges, but were refused. Lugovoi denied his involvement in the poisoning of Litvinenko; now he is the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption.

In 2016, the results of the inquiry conducted by Judge Robert Owen were released. He came to the conclusion that Lugovoi and Kovtun could have acted on the orders of the FSB leadership with the consent of both the director of the service, Nikolai Patrushev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin called the investigation superficial and unprofessional.

Skripal poisoning

There is another sensational poisoning of Russians in Britain, in which the Russian authorities may be involved.

Former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury on March 4, 2018. They were taken to hospital in critical condition. The police found that they were poisoned nerve agent. About 20 people were poisoned, including the policeman who first visited the scene and the house of Skripal. On the fact of poisoning a case of attempted murder.

As a result, the ex-scout and his daughter came to their senses and live in a secret place in Britain in order to protect your safety.

In Russia, Skripal was convicted in 2006 for spying for British intelligence. In 2010, he was exchanged for Russian intelligence agents uncovered in the United States.

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After investigating, Britain concluded that the nerve agent of the new generation of the group called “Novice” was used for the poisoning. Since no country other than Russia had access to this substance, London declared that Russia was most likely responsible for the attempt.

Investigation UK accused of attempted murder of Petrov and Boshirov while calling them employees of the GRU.

Russia denied these allegations, and President Vladimir Putin said that the suspects were civilians.

Then suspects gave an interview to Russian journalists and stated that they had visited Salisbury to “see the cathedral”.

After poisoning Scripal USA have introduced a package restrictions against Russia, which entered into force on 27 on August 2018.

Previously ForumDaily опубликовал a complete list of sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe against Russia.

Some media reported that Skripals secretly moved from Britain to another country.

You can also find out where the Skripals are now and who else were trying to kill 'Novice'.

German authorities said Novichok substance was used for the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in August 2020 of the year.

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