Markov denies Russian involvement in the Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, which was perpetrated with Polonium-210 from a Russian reactor and which the British security services believe to have been conducted on behalf of the Russian government. He also attributes the Russian apartment bombings by Chechen terrorists to Russian businessmen forced from the country to exile in Britain. Markov comments on many other foreign policy questions, attributing the conflict in South Ossetia to a plot by Dick Cheney to further interests of John McCain against Barack Obama in the US presidential elections.