Yuri Felshtinsky wrote Blowing up Russia with Alexander Litvinenko, whose 2006 assassination was ordered by Vladimir Putin the Litvinenko Public Inquiry found on 20 January 2016. He is a former Hoover Institute Fellow at the University of Stanford. Fifty-nine-year-old Vladimir Pribylovsky was found dead a week before the 2016-Litvinenko inquiry in Moscow in unexplained circumstances.