Viktor Kalashnikov (journalist)
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Viktor Kalashnikov (Russian: Виктор Калашников) is a Russian freelance journalist and a former KGB colonel. In the autumn of 2010, he and his wife Marina Kalashnikova were treated in hospital in Germany for mercury poisoning in what they said had been an attempt on their lives by Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB.[1] He is a distant relative of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47.[2]
He was married to Marina Kalashnikova, a former historian and journalist.
Activities
Kalashnikov and his wife have been publishing articles critical of the Kremlin since the 1990s. They left Russia and have lived in various countries, such as Ukraine, Poland, Estonia and now Germany.[1] They claim to have been warned to cease their activities at various points in the 1990s and 2000s by KGB agents.[3]