In the past few days, a full-blown media and political offensive has been launched in Sofia targeting Hungarian Prime ...

Ricin - the toxin found by UK anti-terrorist police - was famously used to murder Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov with a poisoned umbrella.

An Arkansas tree cutter who made jars of the lethal poison ricin on his rural property was sentenced to eight years in prison for possessing a biological agent infamously known for being one of the ...

Georgi Markov, a novelist and playwright, defected in 1969 from his native Bulgaria which was then ruled by communists. Markov became a broadcast journalist in England and was known for his ...

AS Georgi Markov stood waiting at a bus stop near Waterloo Bridge in London on September 7, 1978, he felt a sudden stinging pain in the back of his thigh. He turned expecting to see someone who ...

But in previous cases, it has been processed as a powder, mist, pellet or dissolved in water or acid. In 1978, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London by an operative ...

The murdered man was BBC World Service journalist - Georgi Markov, It took Markov, 49, four agonising days to die after being poked in his right thigh as he waited for a bus on London’s Waterloo ...

Bulgarian writer, journalist and defector, Georgi Markov, is poisoned in an assassination attempt, 7 September 1978. He was stabbed in the back of the leg by the tip of an umbrella while waiting ...

Forty-five years ago, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was killed in London with a poison-tipped umbrella as he made his way home from work. The horrifying case transfixed the British public.

Bulgarian journalist Georgi Markov defected to the West in 1969 and was a harsh critic of his country's pro-Moscow Communist regime, broadcasting commentaries on the BBC and Radio Free Europe.