<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2995" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris asks whether Alexander Litvinenko spoke english.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He did. Indeed I could not have talked to him in Russian, as I have none. It was not very grammatical and he talked at length to Julia Svetlichnaja in Russian. But he had no trouble making himself understood in English. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>