About 700 Russians thought to have attended demonstration, calling for an end to the war in Ukraine
Marina Litvinenko, the widow of the defector poisoned in London, led calls for a Ukrainian victory in the year-long war at a noisy demonstration of several hundred outside the Russian embassy in the capital on Saturday.
Her husband, Alexander, a former Russian spy, was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006, probably, a British public inquiry concluded, on the. After his death, dramatised in a recent ITV series, Marina campaigned for a proper investigation into his murder. The organisers, the Russian Democratic Society, estimated that 700 people participated, although space outside the embassy itself was limited because the Metropolitan police had refused to close the busy A40 main road outside.Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer
Other speakers included Bill Browder, an American financier, who became an anti-corruption campaigner after his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian jail, and Vladimir Ashurkov, who helps run the Anti-Corruption Foundation, founded by the jailed opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.
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