The US State Department announced the country's intention to impose new sanctions on Russia due to the incident involving the use of chemical weapons in British Salisbury. The restrictive measures will come into force on August 22, writes Gazeta.ru. “After the expiration of the 15-day period from the date of notification to Congress ...

The British government intends to buy out a house in Salisbury belonging to the Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal, as well as his car and other property. This is reported by The Times, citing its sources in the government. In total, to buy out Skripal's property and ...

Yulia, the daughter of the Russian scout-defector Sergei Skripal, who suffered from poisoning in Salisbury, recorded her first video message in which she spoke about her health and the condition of her father. The video was published by the BBC. “When I woke up after a 20-day coma, I learned that my father and I had been poisoned. ...

Former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned in the British city of Salisbury along with his daughter Yulia, has been discharged from the hospital. TASS writes about this with reference to the National Health Service of England. “Wonderful news - Sergei Skripal is feeling well enough to leave hospital in Salisbury,”...

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 Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal secretly collaborated with the Estonian intelligence services and met with representatives of the Czech intelligence. This is reported by the New York Times, citing its own sources. According to them, a few years before the poisoning in March 2018, a former employee ...

Alexei Venediktov, a Russian journalist and editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, visited the British city of Salisbury, where the poisoning of the former Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia took place. How the city and its inhabitants cope with the consequences of the poisoning, Venediktov told in an interview ...

British police said that the probable perpetrator of the assassination attempt on the Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia was an agent of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) under the codename "Gordon". He allegedly led a group of six people that organized and carried out the assassination attempt, reports ...

Sergei and Yulia Skripal will be offered new names and the opportunity to move to the United States in order to protect them from possible assassination attempts in the future. This is reported by the Sunday Times, citing its sources in the UK government. According to him, ...

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 ...