Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

Quality:

Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko - 2006 fatal poisoning of a former FSB and KGB officer. Article “Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko” in English Wikipedia has 83.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 258 references and 36 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko”, its content was written by 503 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 738 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 239 times in English Wikipedia and cited 602 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #995 in December 2006
• Global: #3876 in March 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1996 in March 2018
• Global: #4212 in March 2018

There are 15 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko		83.6602
2	Ukrainian (uk) Отруєння Олександра Литвиненка		83.3333
3	Serbian (sr) Тровање Александра Литвињенка		81.0526
4	Russian (ru) Отравление Александра Литвиненко		73.7174
5	Greek (el) Υπόθεση Λιτβινένκο		49.2392
6	Japanese (ja) リトビネンコ事件		46.4343
7	Czech (cs) Otrava Alexandra Litviněnka		39.147
8	Italian (it) Avvelenamento di Aleksandr Val'terovič Litvinenko		33.8823
9	Estonian (et) Aleksandr Litvinenko mürgitamine		30.7349
10	Basque (eu) Aleksandr Litvinenkoren pozoinketa		26.5496

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko		5 105 101
2	Russian (ru) Отравление Александра Литвиненко		1 363 698
3	Japanese (ja) リトビネンコ事件		92 636
4	Spanish (es) Envenenamiento de Aleksandr Litvinenko		51 996
5	Czech (cs) Otrava Alexandra Litviněnka		49 178
6	Greek (el) Υπόθεση Λιτβινένκο		37 605
7	Persian (fa) مسمومیت الکساندر لیتویننکو		14 723
8	Ukrainian (uk) Отруєння Олександра Литвиненка		10 651
9	Arabic (ar) تسميم ألكساندر ليتفينينكو		8 019
10	Indonesian (id) Peracunan Alexander Litvinenko		7 482

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko		20 354
2	Russian (ru) Отравление Александра Литвиненко		6 432
3	Japanese (ja) リトビネンコ事件		1 504
4	Italian (it) Avvelenamento di Aleksandr Val'terovič Litvinenko		439
5	Ukrainian (uk) Отруєння Олександра Литвиненка		240
6	Spanish (es) Envenenamiento de Aleksandr Litvinenko		177
7	Czech (cs) Otrava Alexandra Litviněnka		147
8	Arabic (ar) تسميم ألكساندر ليتفينينكو		81
9	Greek (el) Υπόθεση Λιτβινένκο		74
10	Persian (fa) مسمومیت الکساندر لیتویننکو		43

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko		503
2	Russian (ru) Отравление Александра Литвиненко		128
3	Greek (el) Υπόθεση Λιτβινένκο		20
4	Czech (cs) Otrava Alexandra Litviněnka		17
5	Italian (it) Avvelenamento di Aleksandr Val'terovič Litvinenko		12
6	Spanish (es) Envenenamiento de Aleksandr Litvinenko		11
7	Ukrainian (uk) Отруєння Олександра Литвиненка		8
8	Estonian (et) Aleksandr Litvinenko mürgitamine		7
9	Arabic (ar) تسميم ألكساندر ليتفينينكو		6
10	Indonesian (id) Peracunan Alexander Litvinenko		6

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Отравление Александра Литвиненко		3
2	Greek (el) Υπόθεση Λιτβινένκο		1
3	Arabic (ar) تسميم ألكساندر ليتفينينكو		0
4	Czech (cs) Otrava Alexandra Litviněnka		0
5	English (en) Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko		0
6	Spanish (es) Envenenamiento de Aleksandr Litvinenko		0
7	Estonian (et) Aleksandr Litvinenko mürgitamine		0
8	Basque (eu) Aleksandr Litvinenkoren pozoinketa		0
9	Persian (fa) مسمومیت الکساندر لیتویننکو		0
10	Indonesian (id) Peracunan Alexander Litvinenko		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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