"In 2007 I was commissioned by the organizers of the World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists to analyze and report on the media coverage of the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning. I presented my findings to the Congress when it met in Moscow that year. More recently, coinciding with the 5th anniversary of Litvinenko's death, I wrote a book titled The Phony Litvinenko Murder. It reflects upon and updates those findings. I have also produced a video supplement to the book, called Alexander Litvinenko: The Who-Done-It Fraud.

"The Alexander Litvinenko story was one of the biggest news stories of late 2006. The story was carried worldwide. But it was particularly big in London, which was the center of much of the reporting.

"Media outlets were reporting that former KGB spy Litvinenko was murdered on orders of Vladimir Putin. But my findings show that Litvinenko wasn't a spy, he never worked for the KGB, and the claim that Vladimir Putin ordered the murder is not fact-based. It was merely an allegation made by an arch-enemy of Putin's. What's more, the London coroner hasn't ever concluded that Litvinenko was even murdered.

"This means that the principle storyline was not factual. It was a fabrication. Media stories were replete with fantastical reportage that not only lacked a basis in fact, but contained illogical nonsense. In all, it seems like it was a fraud perpetrated upon the public."