Scientist Vladimir Uglev, known as one of the developers of the Novichok group of nerve agents, said that police officers came to his home to check. According to the chemist, this happened after unknown people began posting leaflets in the city with his photograph and...

Bellingcat has established that a third Russian GRU officer who was in the UK at the time of the Skripals poisoning by Novichok in March 2018 arrived in Bulgaria just days before a local businessman and his son were poisoned with an unidentified substance. ...

Former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia most likely remained in the UK after the attempted poisoning story. The Telegraph writes about this with reference to its sources in the security services. As Lenta.ru writes, the Skripals were stationed in the south of England. There they live under supervision...

Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Russian citizens, whom Britain has accused of poisoning former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, with the Novichok nerve agent, to turn to the media and tell about themselves. Writes about it Reuters. British Prime Minister ...

The Russian Embassy in the United States said that the American side did not provide any explanation for the sanctions announced by the State Department in connection with the use of the Novichok nerve agent in the UK, writes RBC. A message from the Russian embassy in the United States, published on the social network Facebook, indicates that representatives of the United ...

British police found a small bottle containing a nerve agent in the home of "Novice" poisoned Charles Rowley in Amesbury. Rowley and his partner Don Sturgess were sent by Novice on June 30, Sturgess passed away on July 8, Voice of America writes. Now the police are trying to establish ...

Dawn Sturgess, 44, who was hospitalized on June 30 in Amesbury, near Salisbury, after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, has died. Police have registered a murder case and said an autopsy will take place at a later date. Sturgess's friend, 45-year-old Charlie Rowley, who also received a dose...

German intelligence obtained a sample of the Novichok nerve agent in the early 1990s and figured out its formula. Zeit reports this with reference to its sources, as well as data from a journalistic investigation. A sample of the substance was brought to Germany by a Russian intelligence defector in exchange for a promise of the right...

The treatment of Sergei Skripal is yielding results, his condition is improving rapidly, according to a statement by the chief physician of the Salisbury hospital, where a former GRU agent is being treated after poisoning with a nerve agent, the BBC writes. Sergei Skripal's treatment is yielding results, his condition is improving rapidly, the chief said in a statement ...

Russia has documents indicating that Novichok gas was being developed in the United States, Igor Rybalchenko, head of the chemical-analytical control laboratory of the scientific center of the Ministry of Defense, told RIA Novosti. According to him, back in 1998, domestic experts discovered in the spectral library of the United States National Bureau of Standards...