Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "tin pot despot" who, with Kremlin "cronies," was behind the 2006 poisoning murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, the lawyer for his widow said on July 31.
Reuters: Russia’s ‘tin pot despot’ Putin behind spy’s London murder, UK inquiry told
Businessman Dmitry Kovtun, a suspect in the murder of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, looks on during a press conference in Moscow on April 8.
