Halya Coynash: Russian TV says ’Litvinenko poisoned himself’
While observers around the world were sharing Marina Litvinenko’s relief that the likely role of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s role in her husband’s murder had finally been clearly stated, pro-Kremlin media were in overdrive trying to undermine the report. Plausibility was difficult, but clearly seen as expendable given a sufficient number of ‘experts’ and outrageous lies. It had been tried before after the downing by a Russian-made Buk Missile of the MH17 passenger plane, so this one, about a person few know about and some obscure poison was easy.