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Various set up shots of Martin Rynja, publisher, Gibson Square Books2. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Rynja, publisher, Gibson Square Books:\"The key point is what is the democratic content of Putin's election and I...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLondon - 18 January 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various set up shots of Martin Rynja, publisher, Gibson Square Books\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Rynja, publisher, Gibson Square Books:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The key point is what is the democratic content of Putin's election and I think what Litvinenko in this book does is he is raising very serious questions about that in a way that only he could do I think and he was a former colleague of Putin.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway of Rynja with interviewer and camera\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Rynja, publisher, Gibson Square Books:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well I think the conclusion is that the bombings in Litvinenko and his co-author's view were organised by the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) and their claim is that the FSB is in fact in a power struggle which they've won in Russia and that the apartment bombings was one of their key points in winning that power struggle for control.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of Rynja with interviewer and camera\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Rynja, publisher, Gibson Square Books:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well I think that the mystery about this book is that it was banned in Russia.  It's the same, it's as mysterious in a way as the tragic murder - I'm going to say assassination - of Litvinenko because it suggests that there is something, there is a grain of truth in this book which is offensive to certain people in Russia.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of book cover, Rynja in the background\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Rynja, publisher, Gibson Square Books:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well he has been given advice by the FBI that London isn't safe and we have been instructed not to give any information about his whereabouts.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway of book cover \u003cbr/\u003eMoscow - 18 January 2007      \u003cbr/\u003e10. Set up shot of Viktor Kremenyuk, Deputy Director for USA-Canada Institute\u003cbr/\u003e11. Photo of Kremenyuk with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Kremenyuk, Deputy Director of USA-Canada Institute:\u003cbr/\u003e\"For the ordinary people, for many observers the question still persists - who is to be blamed for this? In these conditions everything has all the grounds for existence. If Mr Litvinenko insists that this is the product of the security forces, he has all the grounds to insist on that, because we don't see whether there is anything against his argument.\" \u003cbr/\u003e13. Cutaway of Kremenyuk sitting at his desk\u003cbr/\u003eA British publishing house is releasing a controversial book written by the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed by radiation poisoning in London in November 2006.\u003cbr/\u003eThe book is said to be the first of several planned editions that will carry Litvinenko's anti-Kremlin allegations around the world.\u003cbr/\u003eLitvinenko's \"Blowing Up Russia\" is due to be published by Gibson Square Books on Friday, almost two months after the former agent's death from radiation poisoning.\u003cbr/\u003eIt alleges that Kremlin authorities were behind a series of apartment-house bombings in 1999 that killed more than 3-hundred people and were blamed by Moscow on Chechen separatists.\u003cbr/\u003eCo-written with Yuri Feltshinsky, the book was originally published in the United States in 2002 with financial support from self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky and distributed in small quantities. It gained little attention, and most considered the former spy's allegations far-fetched.\u003cbr/\u003eA Russian edition was seized by authorities and destroyed in 2003.\u003cbr/\u003ePublisher Martin Rynja, of Gibson Square Books, said the conclusion in the book was that the bombings in Litvinenko and his co-author's view, were organised by the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) and their claim was that the FSB was in a power struggle which they had won in Russia and that the apartment bombings was one of the key points in winning that power struggle for control.\u003cbr/\u003eLitvinenko, 43, died in November, several weeks after falling ill with what was later determined to be poisoning by the rare radioactive isotope polonium-210.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well I think that the mystery about this book is that it was banned in Russia.  It's the same, it's as mysterious in a way as the tragic murder - I'm going to say assassination - of Litvinenko because it suggests that there is something, there is a grain of truth in this book which is offensive to certain people in Russia,\" Rynja said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe former agent in the KGB and its successor, the FSB, fled to Britain after leaving Russia and was granted asylum. \u003cbr/\u003eIn exile, he became a fierce Kremlin critic.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a deathbed statement, Litvinenko blamed the Kremlin for his poisoning - a claim Russian officials deny.\u003cbr/\u003eBritish and Russian authorities continue to investigate his death.\u003cbr/\u003ePolitical analyst Viktor Kremenyuk, Deputy Director of USA-Canada Institute, said for ordinary people, the question of who was behind the apartment bombings remained.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If Mr Litvinenko insists that this is the product of the security forces, he has all the grounds to insist on that, because we don't see whether there is anything against his argument,\" Kremenyuk said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe publishers refused to divulge any information about Litvenenko's co-author Yuri Feltshinsky.\u003cbr/\u003e\"He has been given advice by the FBI (America's Federal Bureau of Investigation) that London isn't safe and we have been instructed not to give any information about his whereabouts,\" Rynja said.\u003cbr/\u003eLitvinenko's story has sparked a bidding war in Hollywood. \u003cbr/\u003eTrade paper Variety reported last week that director Michael Mann and Columbia Pictures were racing against actor Johnny Depp and Warner Bros. to make a film about the former spy's life and death.\u003cbr/\u003eEach has bought rights to a book about the former KGB agent.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Blowing up Russia\" was due for publication in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and other countries in the coming months.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex 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