{"id":557,"date":"2007-01-20T04:41:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/my-friend-sasha-a-very-russian-murder\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T04:58:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T03:58:41","slug":"my-friend-sasha-a-very-russian-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/my-friend-sasha-a-very-russian-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"MY FRIEND SASHA: A VERY RUSSIAN MURDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Nekrasov, 2007<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\/documentaries\/storyville\/sasha.shtml\"><strong>BBC Two<\/strong>: Monday 22 January 2007 11.20pm-12.20am<\/a><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\/documentaries\/storyville\/images\/litvinenko_nekrasov_lead.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/polonium-210-fingerprints\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/mar22\/bhgnext.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>For three years before his death from poisoning, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko had been making a documentary with his friend Andrei Nekrasov about authoritarianism in post-communist Russia. Here is that film, the unexpected ending of which made world headlines at the end of 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; as i dont get a chance to pay a licence fee to the beeb the least i can do is alert Storyville<br \/>\nthis programme follows Panorama: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/programmes\/panorama\/default.stm\">How to Poison a Spy<\/a>  (same night)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Nekrasov, 2007 BBC Two: Monday 22 January 2007 11.20pm-12.20am For three years before his death from poisoning, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko had been making a documentary with his friend Andrei Nekrasov about authoritarianism in post-communist Russia. Here is that film, the unexpected ending of which made world headlines at the end of 2006.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/my-friend-sasha-a-very-russian-murder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MY FRIEND SASHA: A VERY RUSSIAN MURDER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}