Alexander Litvinenko was born in 1962 in Voronezh into a doctor's family. He graduated from school in 1980 in Nalchik and was then drafted to the military.
Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Alexander Litvinenko, was born in Moscow, Russia in 1962. In 1985 she graduated from the Industrial Petrochemical and Gas Institute as an Economist-Engineer.
Boris Berezovsky – scientist, entrepreneur, politician, political refugee. In 1998, a group of FSB members, led by Alexander Litvinenko, uncovered and made public at a press-conference an FSB plan to assassinate Berezovsky.
Vladimir Putin –Russia's president. Putin was born in 1952 in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). Putin graduated from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University in 1975 and was accepted into the KGB.