Yuri Felshtinsky is an expert on the history of the Russian secret services, studied at Brandeis University, received doctorates from Rutgers and Moscow universities, and was a Hoover Institute Fel...view moreYuri Felshtinsky is an expert on the history of the Russian secret services, studied at Brandeis University, received doctorates from Rutgers and Moscow universities, and was a Hoover Institute Fellow at the University of Stanford. He was instrumental in organising Litvinenko's escape from Russia.Vladimir Pribylovsky was a Byzantine scholar and human-rights activist as well as leader of the practical-joke Beer Lover’s Party, which promised to lower the temperature of boiling water and became an informal network of resistance.view less