A01=Alex Goldfarb
A01=Marina Litvinenko
Author_Alex Goldfarb
Author_Marina Litvinenko
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Category=JPWL
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Product details
- ISBN 9781847391070
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication City/Country: US
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Alex Goldfarb, Ph.D., was a dissident scientist who left Russia in the 1970s, joining the faculty of Columbia University. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he went to work for George Soros directing charitable initiatives in Russia. He befriended Alexander Litvinenko in the 1990s. Goldfarb later helped Litvinenko work on his memoirs and supported his efforts to expose the abuses of the newly ascendant FSB. Goldfarb is currently the executive director of the International Foundation for Civil Liberties, set up by Boris Berezovsky as an umbrella group for human-rights activists. Marina Litvinenko first met Alexander at her thirty-first birthday party, in 1993, when he was a young officer in the FSB. They married and she gave birth to a son thereafter. In 2000, the three of them sought asylum in the United Kingdom, and she continues to live in London with her twelve-year-old son.
