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Boris Berezovsky has won a libel case over a Russian TV accusation that he was behind the Litvinenko assassination (Independent).

Cinema

Transformers part III to be shot in Moscow (AIF, in Russian)?

Mike Newell's film about Litvinenko [to be called Londongrad] will be half Bourne, half Syriana (alexgoldfarb, in Russian).

Universal shuts down Timur Bekmambetov project after Angelina Jolie refuses to take part (MIGnews, in Russian).

[North] London-based former Harry Potter director Mike Newell is to make a film, based on his own script, about the Litvinenko affair (gazeta.ru, in Russian).

Interview with Saakashvili in Le Monds (Le Monde, in French). Among certain questionable assertions – that Georgia is a European country, and that Russians are savages – there's an interesting anecdote. Saakashvili says that, in order to overcome a fear of assassination:

...I went to London soon after Litvinenko's poisoning and made sure I ate sushi without bodyguards in attendance.

The Litvinenko story is analysed in Alan S. Cowell's The Terminal Spy (NY Times).

Ars longa, vita brevis

Johnny Depp plans to star in a Warner Brothers movie about nuked dissident Alexander Litvinenko. Meanwhile his widow, Maria, and deathbed spokesperson, Alex Goldfarb, have sold the rights to their book on Litvinenko to Columbia Pictures for $1.5 million. The Hollywood Reporter comments on the latter project:

The Columbia project was described by the studio as a wide-ranging espionage
thriller, (exploring) the collision between the deep-rooted Russian power structure -- enforced by the KGB and its successor, the FSB -- and the new wave of wild west capitalism that came on the heels of glasnost.