The film covers the flight from Russia and subsequent
murder of Litvinenko, a controversial Russian dissident living in London. Litvinenko was murdered with the radioactive poison
Polonium-210 in 2006, triggering already souring relations between Russia and Britain (and the West in general). The man wanted by the British police on suspicion of the murder of Litvinenko is
Andrey Lugovoy, who had visited London before Litvinenko's death and met with him four times. Russia has rejected the request for his extradition. The film includes interviews with Litvinenko, which, according to the film-makers shows him "explaining the reasons of his rebellion and detailing the rise of the police state in Russia in the past decade." They claim that his defection, his claim that Putin wanted his spooks to assassinate the Yeltsin-era tycoon
Boris Berezovsky, and "investigation of the alleged involvement of [the]
FSB in the
1999 bombings of apartment houses in Moscow, which was blamed on the
Chechens and served as the pretext for the
war, made him the sworn enemy of the
Kremlin" and possibly led to his death. "Nekrasov claims that the culture of fear and secrecy triumphantly survived the end of the Soviet Union. The surviving authoritarianism and paranoia were welded to a new worship of money and gangsterism." The documentary also includes interviews with assassinated journalist
Anna Politkovskaya. == Reaction ==