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Russian TV shows Litvinenko's father asking Russia's forgiveness, to return home
2012
Overview
Russian state-controlled Channel One in its 1400 gmt news bulletin on 2 February showed a correspondent's report about a \"sensational statement\" from Valter (Walter) Litvinenko, the father of Aleksandr Litvinenko, the former Russian Federal Security Service officer who was poisoned in London in 2006. In an interview in Italy, where Litvinenko Sr is currently living, he said that he no longer stands by his previously stated claim that the Russian authorities were involved in his son's murder. He said that it was \"as if something clicked\" in his head when reports emerged that his son Aleksandr had worked for the British intelligence service MI6. Litvinenko Sr was shown asking his homeland to forgive him and saying that he wants to return home. The report stressed that Litvinenko is now penniless and has been abandoned by those who previously supported him, such as Russian businessman [Boris Abramovich Berezovskiy], who has political asylum in the UK. The following is the text of the report, which was repeated with a slightly different presenter's preamble on the same day in Channel One's primetime \"Vremya\" news programme (1700 gmt): [[Valter Litvinenko]] It's cold. You're not wanted here. You cop it and they'll drag you out and carry you off. Like my wife as well. She's asked all the time, asked to go to Russia. I want to go home. She was sitting crying. [And I would say:] Lyuba, stop it! Now I have taken (?her) to the cemetery. There are still debts. We still owe money here because we buried her. For the funeral. There her grave won't be thrown away, she won't be thrown out of her grave. Russian people, don't believe anyone. We're not wanted here. [Correspondent] Valter Aleksandrovich's wife, Lyuba, passed away in Italy in 2011. Now Litvinenko's family are scattered all over Europe. They don't have enough money. The elderly man and father is helped with food.
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BBC Worldwide Limited
