Two PhD students who interviewed Alexander Litvinenko as part of their research claimed on Friday (December 8) the poisoned Russian former spy planned to blackmail a powerful Russian oligarch. Westminster PhD student Julia Svetlichnaja who interviewed Litvinenko a number of times said the former Russian agent claimed he had files on a number of people that he planned to blackmail. "One of the names was a famous Russian oligarch, which he accused of corruption and, and to be very close to the Kremlin. And those materials that Litvinenko claimed he had, he was going to, as he said "I am officially going to deal with this" so he was obviously going to present those sensitive information to this person in order to get a substantial amount of money," Svetlichnaja claimed. Svetlichnaja, who is Russian, told a news conference in London that Litvinenko made the claims to her during an interview which he would not allow her to record. She claims Litvinenko at times would allow her to record...