After Long Legal Fight, Inquest Is Set to Begin in Death of Putin Critic

LONDON — It has consumed more than eight years of maneuvering, obstruction and a widow’s dogged legal campaign, fought often on a shoestring. But finally, on Tuesday, a public inquiry is set to begin its quest for an answer to the question that has driven the whole process: Why did Alexander V. Litvinenko have to die?

On Nov. 1, 2006, Mr. Litvinenko, a former officer of the Soviet K.G.B. in self-exile in London and a vocal critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, sipped tea from a poisoned pot, took sick and died 22 days later. Only after his death did British scientists confirm that the poison was Polonium 210, a rare isotope manufactured mostly in Russia.

From his deathbed, Mr. Litvinenko accused Mr. Putin of responsibility for ordering his murder, a charge the Kremlin leader has always denied. But when Robert Owen, an eminent British judge, opens the inquiry on Tuesday, it will be to start months of hearings that will paint a detailed canvas of Mr. Litvinenko’s life and death, and try to determine where responsibility lies among a flamboyant cast of potential players ranging from Russian state agencies to British spies to Spanish mobsters.

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After Long Legal Fight, Inquest Is Set to Begin in Death of Putin Critic

After Long Legal Fight, Inquest Is Set to Begin in Death of Putin Critic

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