Death of a Dissident The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the New Russian Reign of Terror

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.Goldfarb, Alex is the author of 'Death of a Dissident The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the New Russian Reign of Terror', published 2007 under ISBN 9781416551652 and ISBN 1416551654.