In Britain, new video has surfaced of Alexander Litvinenko just weeks before his death. Litvinenko is the Russian spy who died last week of an apparent poisoning. He had been investigating the death of Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist and government critic shot dead at her Moscow apartment in October. The new video was taken at a journalists’ event in London on October 19. Litvinenko accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering Politkovskaya’s murder.

Alexander Litvinenko: “Somebody has asked me directly, who is guilty of Anna’s death? Who has killed her? I can directly answer you, it is Mr. Putin, the president of the Russian Federation, who killed her. I can tell you the facts, and you can make your own conclusions.”

Shortly before he died, Litvinenko accused Putin of being behind his poisoning as he lay on his deathbed. Meanwhile, police in Ireland have launched an investigation into whether former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar was poisoned when he fill ill last week.