Editorials Sep 10, 2020
Moscow must be punished for its actions and Putin stripped of the delusion that he is untouchable.
World / Social Issues Apr 15, 2019
Salisbury, scene of Novichok poison drama, named Britain's best place to live
The English cathedral city of Salisbury, the location of a deadly nerve agent poisoning blamed on Russia, was named Britain's best place to live by the Sunday Times newspaper. The award comes a little over a year after a former Russian double agent and his ...
World / Crime & Legal Dec 20, 2018
Russian whistle-blower probably died in 2012 of natural causes, U.K. inquest finds
A Russian mafia whistle-blower who was found dead after going out for a run near his home in southern England six years ago probably died of natural causes rather than from an elaborate poison plot, a British coroner found on Wednesday. Alexander Perepilichny, 44, was ...
World / Crime & Legal Nov 14, 2018
Chemical arms team to assign blame for Syrian attacks despite Russia, Iran opposition
The global chemical weapons watchdog will in February begin to assign blame for attacks with banned munitions in Syria's war, using new powers approved by member states but opposed by Damascus and its key allies Russia and Iran. The agency was handed the new task ...
World / Crime & Legal Oct 11, 2018
Russian website names third GRU officer involved in Salisbury nerve agent poisoning
The Russian news website Fontanka named on Wednesday a third GRU military intelligence operative, Sergey Fedotov, as having been involved in trying to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury. The website said records show Fedotov visited Britain in 2016, 2017 and ...
World Oct 3, 2018
Ukraine minister says Sergei Skripal poisoning suspect helped Yanukovic flee in 2014
Ukraine's interior minister said on Tuesday a suspect in the Skripal poisoning case, working for Russian military intelligence, had been identified in Ukraine as a man who helped the former Ukrainian president flee to Russia in 2014. It was not immediately clear whether minister Arsen ...
World | FOCUS Sep 6, 2018
Planes, trains and fake perfume: How Novichok arrived in Britain
by Kitty Donaldson
The sheer audacity of Russia's chemical-weapon attack on the U.K. can be traced through the journey of a small — and fake — Nina Ricci Premier Jour perfume bottle. It contained Novichok, a lethal Soviet-era nerve agent, and was smuggled from Russia into Britain on ...
World Jul 19, 2018
Suspects identified in Novichok poisoning of Skripals in U.K.
British police have identified several Russians who they believe were behind the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, the Press Association reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the investigation. Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence ...
World / Crime & Legal Jul 11, 2018
British man poisoned with Novichok regains consciousness but still listed in critical condition
A British man poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent 10 days ago has regained consciousness and is now in critical but stable condition, Salisbury District Hospital said on Tuesday. Charlie Rowley, 45, was poisoned along with Dawn Sturgess, who died on Sunday, by the same ...
World / Crime & Legal Jul 5, 2018
Two British citizens were critically ill in a hospital on Wednesday after they were poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent, which struck down a former Russian agent and his daughter in March, Britain's top counterterrorism officer said. The British pair, a 44-year-old woman and a ...
World / Crime & Legal May 22, 2018
U.K. decontamination finished at shopping center after nerve agent attack on Russian ex-spy
A shopping center in the English city where a former Russian spy was found collapsed with his daughter after a nerve agent attack more than two months ago has been successfully decontaminated, Britain's environment department said on Monday. Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found unconscious ...
World May 18, 2018
The West's knowledge of the secret Russian nerve agent the U.K. says was used to poison a former spy and his daughter came from a sample obtained by Germany in the 1990s, according to a report by German media organizations. In a joint report published ...