Alexander Goldfarb said the book " would haunt Putin the way the image of the killed Tsarevich haunted Boris Godunov . " According to Oleg Gordievsky , " For clues as to who wanted Alexander Litvinenko dead , you need look no farther than his book '' Blowing Up Russia '' " '' Sunday Times '' described the book as " A vivid condemnation of the Putin regime " . In a review for '' The Independent '' , Anne Penketh said that the book is " a densely written text " and " ( f ) or those seeking a reason for the killing of Litvinenko , this book contains the possible motive , although it does not mention the role of Berezovsky — sworn enemy of Putin — in bringing it out in the first place . " Historian Robert Service for '' The Guardian '' : " In 2002 their Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky jointly written book failed to appeal to established publishers in the west . It has taken Litvinenko 's murder for the book to appear in this updated edition ... as vivid a condemnation of the Putin regime as has yet been written . " . Viv Groskop for '' The Observer '' wrote , the book focuses on the failed Ryazan bombings " in excruciating , rambling detail " , but it fails to describe convincingly the involvement of Russian state security services in organizing the Russian apartment bombings and " lack of transparency makes it difficult to read it as more than conspiracy theory " . Andrew Taylor in reviewing the book for '' The Spectator '' wrote the book " is essentially a detailed polemic against Putin and the Kremlin 's hardliners in their pursuit of power . Most of it was written before Litvinenko 's death and for a Russian readership ; it was designed primarily as ammunition for Berezovsky 's propaganda war " . Eibhir Mulqueen in '' The Sunday Business Post '' wrote , " ( t ) he dearth of acknowledged sources aside , the presentation of this thesis manages at once to be as monotonous as an official police report , while being polemical in tone . " In 2001 , the documentary film '' Assassination of Russia '' ( also known as '' Blowing up Russia '' ) was made on the basis of the book by French producers Jean-Charles Deniau and Charles Gazelle . Yuri Felshtinsky and Alexander Litvinenko worked as consultants for the film . The film was shown on TV in Estonia , Latvia , and Lithuania , but not in Russia
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