Brittiläisen The SUNin juttu on virallista rintamapropagandaa.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/40907821/novichok-inventor-dies-putin-salisbury-poison/
" Salisburyn myrkytystapauksessa käytetyn tappavan Novitšok-aineen kehittänyt venäläistutkija on kuollut mystisesti 80-vuotiaana
Harvey Geh, ulkomaanuutisten toimittaja
Will Stewart
Julkaistu: 4. marraskuuta 2026 klo 09.01
Venäläistutkija, joka oli mukana kehittämässä Salisburyn myrkytystapauksissa käytettyä tappavaa Novitšok-hermomyrkkyä, on kuollut mystisesti 80-vuotiaana.
Vladimir Uglev oli aiemmin syyttänyt Kremliä siitä, että se käytti hänen kehittämäänsä kemiallista asetta ”valtiotason salamurhassa”.
Venäläisen The Insider -julkaisun mukaan kuolinsyy on tuntematon, eikä ole selvää, miksi tieto lokakuun 26. päivänä tapahtuneesta kuolemasta tuli julki vasta nyt.
Uglev kuului aikoinaan neuvostoliittolaisten asiantuntijoiden ryhmään, joka loi Novitšokin – tarkemmin sanottuna A-234-yhdisteen. Kyseessä on tappava hermomyrkky, jonka havaitseminen on lähes mahdotonta.
Erään tutkinnan mukaan Putin määräsi Salisburyn myrkytysiskut. Lähde: AFP
Venäjän oppositiojohtaja Aleksei Navalnyi selviydyttyään Novitšok-myrkytyksestä vuonna 2020. Lähde: Reuters
Vladimir Putinin vakoojat käyttivät ainetta maaliskuussa 2018 Isossa-Britanniassa, kun he yrittivät surmata venäläisen kaksoisagentin Sergei Skripalin (tuolloin 66-vuotias) ja tämän tyttären Julian (tuolloin 33-vuotias).
Sergei Skripal ja hänen tyttärensä Julia valvontakamerakuvassa ennen myrkytystä 4. maaliskuuta 2018. Lähde: PA
Entinen vakooja Sergei Skripal, joka toimi kaksoisagenttina MI6:lle, sekä hänen tyttärensä Julia. Lähde: East2West
”Vakavampaa terroritekoa on vaikea kuvitellakaan – varsinkin kun se kohdistuu YK:n pysyvään jäsenvaltioon.”
Hän joutui vainon kohteeksi uskallettuaan arvostella Putinin hallintoa.
Muutama päivä sen jälkeen, kun hän oli arvostellut ankarasti Kremliä, auto törmäsi tutkijaan suojatiellä lähellä hänen kotiaan Mustanmeren rannalla sijaitsevassa Anapan lomakaupungissa.
Hän sai pää- ja käsivammoja lennähdettyään auton konepellille ja osuttuaan tuulilasiin.
Vladimir Uglev
Uglev arvosteli Kremliä Novitšokin käytöstä. Lähde: East2West
Ambulanssi, joka kuljettaa venäläistä oppositiojohtajaa Aleksei Navalnyia, lähtee sairaalasta Omskissa.
Terveydenhuollon ammattilaiset kantavat Navalnyia paareilla matkalla lentokentälle ennen hänen siirtämistään Venäjältä Saksaan hoitoon vuonna 2020. Lähde: Reuters
Vaikka heräsi epäilyksiä siitä, että hänet olisi otettu kohteeksi, Uglev sanoi uskovansa törmäyksen olleen vahinko.
Myöhemmin häntä kuitenkin yritettiin mustamaalata perättömillä syytöksillä pedofiliasta.
Anapaan ilmestyi epäilyttäviä julisteita, joissa esitettiin perättömiä väitteitä häntä vastaan.
Poliisi teki kotietsinnän, tutki hänen elektroniset laitteensa ja otti sormenjäljet, mutta ei löytänyt mitään todisteita.
Uglev totesi kerran olevansa tietoinen vaaroista, joita Venäjän hallinnon julkinen haastaminen voi aiheuttaa.
”Kaikki pelkäävät, mutta pelkoa on opittava hallitsemaan”, hän sanoi.
Hän otti kantaa myös venäläisen oppositiojohtajan Aleksei Navalnyin myrkyttämiseen Novitšokilla vuonna 2020.
Putinin arvostelija selvisi hengissä hyökkäyksestä, mutta hänet ”murhattiin” myöhemmin venäläisessä, arktisella alueella sijaitsevassa rangaistussiirtolassa helmikuussa 2024.
Uglev puhui riippumattomille tutkijoille, jotka selvittivät Venäjän tiedustelupalvelujen toimintaa ja kemiallisten aseiden käyttöä.
Venäläiset toimittajat kuvailivat tutkijaa Novitšokin käytön ”suorasukaiseksi arvostelijaksi”, vaikka hän olikin itse ollut mukana kehittämässä ainetta.
Sekä Salisburyn että Navalnyin myrkytystapausten jälkeen Uglev kyseenalaisti Kremlin väitteet, joissa syyllisyys kiellettiin. Syyskuussa 1946 Kirovskissa syntynyt Uglev kouluttautui kemistiksi Moskovassa, minkä jälkeen hän työskenteli vuosina 1975–1990 salaisessa neuvostoliittolaisessa kemiallisten aseiden tutkimuslaitoksessa Saratovissa. "
Uglëv ja muut Novitshok-kehittäjät ovat aikaisemmin antaneet aivan muuta tietoa mahdollisesta Novitshokista Skripalien ja Navalnyin myrkytystapauksissa. He painottivat silloin, että Novichokista ei parane.
https://www.rt.com/russia/499732-novichok-developers-navalny-symptoms/
Developers of ‘Novichok’ say Navalny's symptoms aren't consistent with poisoning by their deadly creation, reject German claims
2 Sep, 2020 19:25
“The symptoms are absolutely not similar,” Rink told media outlet RIA Novosti.
According to him, if Novichok was used, Navalny would have had seizures, and he would have already died, instead of falling into a coma. “He'd be resting at the cemetery for a long time (already), that's all,” the scientist explained.
“I believe that the use of chemical warfare substances: sarin, soman and Novichok (A-234) can be excluded from the list of possibilities,” Uglev informed another news agency Interfax. “Apart from Navalny himself, the people around him would be also stricken in one form or another.”
According to media reports, Uglev and Rink are among the founders of the Soviet Novichok chemical weapons programme. Until 1991, both of them worked at the Volsk branch of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology in Shikhany, part of the Saratov Region.
On August 20, a plane carrying Navalny made an emergency landing in Omsk after the blogger suddenly felt unwell on a flight from Siberia to Moscow. Navalny was ta-ken to hospital in a coma and was put on a ventilator. On August 22, he was flown to Germany for treatment. German doctors said on August 24 that they had found signs of Navalny’s intoxication with substances from the cholinesterase inhibitors group. The doctors added that there was no threat to his life but there was the possibility of long-term effects on his nervous system.
https://www.rt.com/russia/499708-navalny-poisoning-novichok-russia/
Kremlin says Germany didn’t inform Moscow of data showing oppo-sition figure Navalny was poisoned with Novichok-like nerve agent
2 Sep, 2020 14:44 / Updated 17 days ago "
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Nyt jos Boris käryää Skripalien myrkyttämisestä (fentanyylillä), niin sitten ei tiä, mitä tapahtuu…
https://nation-news.ru/465829-plemyannica-skripalei-obvinila-v-otravlenii-dyadi-borisa-dzhonsona
Voi viddu mitä paskaa
Mutta erittäin hyvä todiste Venäjän sotkeutumisesta sen levittämiseen, ja meillä Tokkura toimiessa lannan luojana
Venäjä / Putin kun on niin syvällä tuossa luomassaan sontaläjässä, ettei siitä selviä edes Ilkka Luoma selityksineen .
Putinin Venäjä on syyllinen Ukrainan tapahtumiin, MH17 tuhoon, Bexittiin, Trumpin valintaan, Skripalien myrkyttämiseen…
Lista vaikuttaa yhtä loputtomalta kuin Venäjän lohduton tulevaisuus, itsensä KGBn tsaariksi julistautuneet johtajansa suojelussa. Paska ei muutu puhumalla paremmaksi, olisi luullut kansan oppineen yli 70 vuoden ihmiskokeella.
Kyllä se vaan niin on,että se oli Boris, kun pieraisi ensimmäisenä ilmoille ”Novicho-kin” ENNEN KUIN ENSIMMÄSTÄKÄÄN ANALYYSIÄ OLI VIEREISESSÄ PORTON DOWNIN KEMILLISTEN ASEIDEN TUTKIMUSKESKUKSESSA EHDITTY TEHDÄ!
Kertoja on kyseisen laitoksen johtaja.
Myrkky EI ole ollut novichkokia,josta ei ainakaan parane, vaan hoitohirtorian mukaan se on ollut keintekoista opiaattia fentanyyliä, sillä heidät pelastettiin ohikulkijoiden ja kauppakeskuksen ensiapupäivystyksen ansiosta tekohengityksellä, sydänhieronnal-la ja oppiumin vasta-aineella, joka tepsii myös fentanyyliin. Novichokille ei ole vasta-ainetta.
Pelastajat eivät huomanneet tieteeävästi saaneensa mitään erityisiä myrkytysoireita.
https://www.tiede.fi/comment/2630783#comment-2630783
https://www.rt.com/uk/423105-porton-down-revelation-skripal-may/
Vuosi sitten… myrkkyjä ei ollut vielä ehditty tutkiakaan… Tosi se Porton Down on todennäköisesti ollut suorastaan arvaamattoman hyvin perillä, mitä se todella oli, ettei sen puoleen…
https://www.rt.com/uk/423107-boris-johnson-lied-russia-skripal/
” Did Boris Johnson lie that lab told him Russia was source of Salisbury nerve agent?
(WATCH VIDEO)
Published time: 3 Apr, 2018 20:13
https://twitter.com/EL4JC/status/981205256452431872
For the avoidance of doubt - here is Boris Johnson clearly claiming that Porton Down had confirmed to him the source of the Salisbury nerve agent. Words matter. He lied. …
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Boris Johnson put his post in jeopardy after possibly lying about Russia being proven as the source of a nerve agent used in the Skripals’ poisoning. On Tuesday, the Porton Down lab said that they hadn’t identified the source.
The Foreign Secretary’s statement, which is being widely shared on social media, features him telling Germany’s state broadcaster that scientists from the Porton Down laboratory were “categorical” about the Russian origin of the substance used in the alleged nerve attack.
Midway through the interview, conducted a fortnight ago, the German TV interviewer asks Johnson: “you argue that the source of this nerve agent, Novichok, is Russia. How did you manage to find it out so quickly? Does Britain possess samples of it?
“Let me be clear with you … When I look at the evidence, I mean the people from Porton Down, the laboratory,” he replies, before the presenter interjects “So they have the samples?”
“They do. And they were absolutely categorical and I asked the guy myself, I said, ”Are you sure?” And he said there’s no doubt,” Johnson replies.
READ MORE: ‘London will have to apologize yet’ – Putin spokesman on UK lab’s revelation in Skripal case
On Tuesday, the chief executive of Porton Down told Sky News how his scientists were unable to link samples of the substance, allegedly used to attack Sergei and Yulia Skripal, to Russia. Gary Aitkenhead insisted that, while the experts had identi-fied the agent as A-234 or “Novichok” they had “not identified the precise source.”
Amid online fury over Johnson’s deception, some prominent figures have sought his head. They include Guardian contributor,Hicham Yezza,who tweeted: “In a Deutsche Welle interview two weeks ago, Boris Johnson said Porton Down experts were ’cate-gorical’ Russia was the source of the Skripal Novichok. Today, Porton Down’s CEO has confirmed this was not true. If confirmed, Boris Johnson must resign.”
Jos venäläiset olisivat myrkyttäneet, HE OLISIVAT KAIKKEIN VIIMEKSI KÄYTTÄNEET NOVITSHOKKIA!
Pääministerin levittämä aivopieru levisi kutenkin muutamassa minuutissa ympäri maailmaa, eikä sitä ”ainetta” monikaan tullut epäilleeksi – oli levittäjä sitten kuka hyvänsä. Se on yleisesti tunnettu aina, mutta hankalaa ja äärimmäisen vaarallista käsitellä, sillä se on nestemäistä, eikä sitä voi sekauttaa paikan päällä myrkyttömistä komponenteista.
Monet tahot reagoivat heti väitteseen: yksi oli Novichokin kehittäjä (Uzbekistanissa) Vladimir Uglëv, joka on pitkään vaikuttanut USA:ssa:
https://www.tiede.fi/comment/2632265#comment-2632265
Russian scientist Vladimir Uglev told the Russian news outlet The Bell how he helped develop the nerve agent Novichok as part of a program ordered by the Soviet ministry of defence. He says there is no antidote. Vladimir Uglev
Vuosi sitten: Novitshok-myrkyn venäläinen kehittäjä Vladimir Uglëv latelee faktat tiskiin: Skripalit kuolevat, jos myrkky on Novichokia, siihen ei ole vastamyrkkyä, eikä siitä parane.
https://thebell.io/en/the-scientist-who-developed-novichok-doses-ranged-…
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-novichok-developer-says-there-no-antido…
Russian Novichok Developer Says There Is No Antidote so Sergei Skripal and His Daughter Will Die
By Brendan Cole On 3/21/18 at 7:50 AM EDT
The Russian scientist who helped develop the nerve agent that the British govern-ment says left former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in a critical condition in Salisbury has said they will die if they are taken off life support because there is no antidote.
Vladimir Uglev worked at Russia’s state scientific research institute for organic che-mistry and technology, or GOSNIIOKHT, where he helped develop ”Novichok” in a pilot project between 1972 and 1988 in the town of Volsk in the Saratov region.
Uglev pointed out Novichok is in fact a group of four nerve agents, each named after the year they were created. He developed B-1976 and C-1976. The other two, A- 1972 and D-1980, were developed by Pyotr Kirpichev, who led the so-called “Foliant program” ordered by the then Soviet ministry of defense.
He said they produced doses of up to several kilograms in liquid form, apart from D-1980 which was a powder, and they were stored in a special warehouse in sealed packaging.
He told the Russian news outlet The Bell that the person who poisoned Skripal would have had to transport the nerve agent via a carrier like cotton balls or powder, which would have been in a container covered in a degassing solution.
“If Skripal and his daughter received a lethal dose of B-1976,C-1976,or D-1980, then , most likely, they will suffer the same fate as earlier victims. There is no antidote to these agents.I can say with nearly 100% certainty that if Skripal and his daughter are taken off of life support, they will die, although they are now only technically alive", said Uglev.
At the institute, where he worked until 1994, he was unable to make Novichok a binary weapon, in which the toxin can be created by mixing two non-toxic substances together. … ”
Vasta sitten rupesivat kulmakarvat kohoilemaan varsinkin asiantuntijapiireissä , kun saatiin kuulla, että potilaat ovatkin paranemaan päin ja ensin Julija ja sitten Sergei myös heränneet koomasta.
Borikselle tulee lähtö heti, kun Brexit on pulkassa.
https://www.tiede.fi/comment/2632343#comment-2632343
A British military laboratory says its scientists cannot prove the nerve agent used to poison a former double agent and his daughter was made in Russia. (File Photo)
No evidence nerve agent came from Russia: UK scientists
Tue Apr 3, 2018 05:54PM
British scientists have said there is no concrete evidence to prove the nerve gas used to poison a former double agent in the UK was Russian-made.
”We have not identified the precise source, but we have provided the scientific info to government who have then used a number of other sources to piece together the conclusions,” Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Porton Down defense laboratory, told Britain’s Sky News on Tuesday.
According to Britain’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, although the nerve agent required extremely sophisticated methods to create, experts have been unable to establish its country of origin.
It was, however, confirmed that the chemical was identified as military-grade Novi-chok nerve agent. The findings were provided to the British government in order to use other sources to piece together a conclusion.
On March 4, former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were found unconscious outside a shopping center in the town of Salisbury in southern England.
The UK says the nerve agent Novichok had been used to poison the pair, claiming only Russia had the capability, motive and intent to be behind the attack.
Moscow has vehemently denied any involvement, saying the substance could have originated from the countries studying Novichok, including the UK itself, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Sweden.
A few days after the incident, British Prime Minster Theresa May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats in the wake of the alleged attack. In retaliation, Moscow expelled 23 British diplomats in response to Britain’s “baseless accusations over the incident in Salisbury on March 4.”
Skripal was found guilty by a Russian tribunal of selling classified information to the UK’s spy agency MI6 and was imprisoned in Russia in 2006. He was exchanged in a spy swap in 2010.
Britain’s National counter-terrorism police have taken over the investigation on the alleged attack and are treating the case as attempted murder. ”
Mediat tekivät ohjelmia heidän hoidostaan lähisairaalassa, mutta heitä ei pelastanut lähisairaala, vaan ohikulkijat, joista yksi oli 16-vuotias ensiapumestari sairaanhoidon opiskelja Abigail McCourt:
Abigail McCourt, 16, thought Sergei Skripal was having a heart attack, but also noticed that his daughter wasn’t breathing
Oletteko muuten huomannut, että Suomen meedia ei ole käytännössä hiiskahtanut-kaan tapaus Skripalista – ei vanhaa eikä uutta ”tietoa”, siis myöskään propagandaa. Hiljaisuus alkoi suurin piirtein kuin Skrpialit itse katosivat lagoilta – oikeina tai ”tekoälyversioina”.
Britit ovat silti pitäneet yllä showta: tammikuussa he toivat esiin 16-vuotiaan armeijan sairaanhoitajaopiskelijan, joka olisi antanut ensiapua Sergei Skripalille, jonka oletti saaneen sydänkohtauksen.
” Teenager honoured for being first to help Skripals after Salisbury poisoning
Lucy Fisher, Defence Correspondent
January 21 2019, 12:01am, The Times
A 16-year-old girl has been honoured for her efforts to save Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy who was poisoned in Salisbury in March. Abigail McCourt was named as a “lifesaver” at a ceremony yesterday.
She was the first to treat Mr Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, who had collapsed on a bench in the city centre.
Ms McCourt, who is a qualified first aider, had thought that Mr Skripal was having a heart attack and noticed that his daughter was not breathing.“We were coming home and I saw them on the bench and at this point people were still walking past and I don’t think anyone had really noticed them,” she told Spire FM. She pointed the pair out to her mother, Alison,…
Abigail McCourt, 16, thought Sergei Skripal was having a heart attack, but also noticed that his daughter wasn’t breathing
Tohtorit hoitivat aluksi Skripaleja ”opiaatin yliannostuksena”, kunnes armeijan myrk-kytutkimulaistos Porton Down, jossa tutkitaan ebola-virustakin, aivan naapurissa, veti hihastaan ”Novichokin” (jonka kanssa aineella ei ole ollut tekemistä).
UK medics treated Skripals for opioid overdose until Porton Down claimed nerve agent poisoning
News compilation on A Socialist In Canada, May 30, 2018
Introduction by Roger Annis:
Readers can compare the following news report published in RT to this May 29 print report by the British state broadcaster BBC. Each news item reports on the same, five-minute broadcast on BBC2 ‘Newsnight’ television program on May 29, 2018.
In the BBC print report (where the BBC2 video broadcast can be viewed), there is no effort to explain why medical officials at the Sainsbury Hospital in Salisbury, England ‘survived’ some 12 hours of treating without precautions two alleged victims of an apparent attack by one of the deadliest classes of chemical weapons agents known to humankind, namely ‘Novichok’. The BBC report contains no timeline of events, hence obscuring that the Skripals were treated for some with what was diag-nosed to be an opioid overdose before British police officials convinced the hospi-tal to go into emergency, ‘chemical weapons’ mode. Treatment for a ‘chemical wea-pon’ only commended afer 48 hours. (The full BBC2 Newsnight episode of May 29, 2018 is here but can only be viewed in the UK due to “rights issues”.)
The United Nations’ Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has said from the get-go that it does not list the ‘Novichok’ class of chemical weapons in its registry. The organizatoin has “no record” of production or possession of such a chemical.
Two articles are enclosed, along with weblinks for suggested, related readings.
UK medics treated Skripals for opioid overdose until Porton Down tests showed nerve agent poisoning
RT, May 30, 2018 (with four-minute news report)
The medical team at Sainsbury Hospital were treating Sergei and Yulia Skripal for opioid overdose without any extra precautions until UK chemical weapon experts “confirmed” nerve agent poisoning and “advised” them on treatment, BBC reports.
Staff at Salisbury District Hospital say that former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, who were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury on Sunday, March 4, were initially treated for opioid overdose, a new documentary reveals.
“The evening that Yulia and Sergei were admitted, at that point we were led to believe that they have taken an overdose, so there was no mention of nerve agent poisoning", Sarah Clark, ward sister in charge of the shift on March 4, told BBC2‘s ‘Newsnight’ in an interview broadcast on May 29. “They were needing their support with their breathing and support with their cardiovascular system.”
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" The scientist who developed “Novichok”: “Doses ranged from 20 grams to several kilos”
The Bell was able to find and speak with Vladimir Uglev, one of the scien-tists who was involved in developing the nerve agent referred to as “Novi-chok”. According to British authorities, a nerve agent from the “Novichok” series was used to poison former Rusian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter,Yulia.Vladimir Uglev,formerly a scientist with Volsk branch of GOSNIIOKHT (“State Scientific-Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology”), which developed and tested production of new lethal substances since 1972, spoke for the first time about his work as early as the 1990s. He left the institute in 1994 and is now retired.
Vladimir Uglev. Credit: Uhlev’sown photo archive
– The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs insists that there was no research nor development of any substance called “Novichok”, not in Russia, nor in the USSR. Is that true?
– In order to make it easier to understand the subject matter, I will not use the name “Novichok” which has is now commonly used by everyone to describe those four substances which were conditionally assigned to me to develop over a period of several years. Three of these substances are part of the “Foliant” program, which was led by Pyotr Kirpichev, a scientist with GOSNIIOKHT (State Scientific-Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology). The first substance of a new class of organophosphorous chemical agents, I will call it “A-1972”, was developed by Kirpichev in 1972. In 1976, I developed two substances: “B-1976” and “C-1976”. The fourth substance, “D-1980”, was developed by Kirpichev in the early 1980s. All of these substances fall under the group referred to as “Novichkov”, but that name wasn’t given to the substances by GOSNIIOKHT.
All four chemical agents are “FOS” or organophosphorous compounds which have a nerve paralyzing effect,but they differ in their precursors, how they were discovered and in their usage as agents of chemical warfare.
In the scientific group led by Kirpichev,several hundred modifications of this class of agents were discovered. Therefore, I can say with a high degree of certainty that no matter which new substances were developed, none of them exceeded the toxic properties of those listed above.
One of these substances was used to poison the banker, Ivan Kivelidi and his secretary in 1995. A cotton ball, soaked in this agent, was rubbed over the microphone in the handset of Kivelidi’s telephone. That specific dose was developed by my group,where we produced all of the chemical agents, and each dose which we developed was given its own complete physical-chemical passport. It was therefore not difficult to determine who had prepared that dose and when it was developed. Naturally, the investigators also suspected me. I was questioned several times about this incident.
In contrast to former GOSNIIOKHT scientist Vil Mirzayanov, who emigrated to the U.S. and is the author of the book “State Secrets: An Insider’s Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program”, Uglev didn’t leave Russia. Mirzayanov gave several interviews over the past few days;these interviews provided most of what is known about “Novichok”. Russian authorities did not officially confirm the development of these nerve agents actually, quite the opposite:on the 17th of March,Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that there was never, not in Russia, nor in the USSR, “any research which was called or had the code name ‘Novichok’.” Zakharova also named the U.S., UK and other countries as the most likely sources of the chemical agents. However,RIA Novosti published an interview today with a person called Leonid Rink, who is also identified in the text as the “developer of ‘Novichok’.”
– For what purpose were the chemical agents developed?
– This fell under the “Foliant” program which was ordered by the Ministry of Defense. The agents were designed as alternative to the Soviet analogy of the American nerve agent, VX.
– Which specific laboratory developed the chemical agent which we now refer to as “Novichok”?
– The Volsk branch of GOSNIIOKHT, which is in the Saratov region.
– Where was the pilot produced and in what quantity?
– In the laboratory itself. Sometimes in pilot production, but also using the laboratory table and equipment. Doses generally ranged from 20 grams to several kilos.
– Where was the agent stored?
– Small doses were stored by Pyotr Kirpichev and myself – in our working room in a metal sealed box safe. Large doses were stored in a special warehouse in sealed packaging. I don’t know anything else about what then happened to the doses beyond where they were stored.
– Did you work on these agents for a long time?
– According to my records, from 1972 until 1988.
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– If a chemical agent was first synthesized in the 1970s, would it be possible that there might have been later, improved versions, after you stopped working?
– I don’t think so. Pyotr Kirpichev’s group synthesized several hundred analogues of this series.
– It is possible to say with confidence that Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned with an agent from the “Novichok” se-ries, or could it be confused with a nerve agent like, for example, VX (an organophosphorous poisonous agent first developed in the UK in 1952 – The Bell)?
– It’s unlikely to be confused with VX, but with Zoman and Zarin (nerve paralyzing gases – The Bell), it’s possible, but only before the laboratory investigation has begun.The chemical agents in our, as you called it, series , are extremely tenacious.
– In a recent interview which he gave to “Novaya Gazeta”, Mirzayanov says that a comparative analysis, was most likely conducted using samples from the victims of the poisoning, by comparing these samples with a formula which British specialists could have taken from his book. Could that be true?
– If you take a formula from that book you could conduct screening for several years. But specific agents and precursors for these agents are not included in his book.
– How could the person who poisoned Skripal and his daughter have done so without put himself in danger?
– Agents should be transported in a container suitable for combat use. It is likely that within this container the chemical agents were put on some kind of carrier (cotton balls, powder, ready-made poisonous elements). All of the container’s external surfaces must be covered in a degassing solution and wiped with a solvent. Therefore, the person who carried out the attack does not need to defend himself.
– The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said that in order to specifically identify the chemical agent which was used, the British authorities must have had a sample of the nerve agent in their pos-session. How could the British have gotten their hands on a sample?
– The British, just like the Germans, are excellent chemists who can with one hint do what in Moscow is classified as top secret. In addition, the sec-ret was already 20 years old in 1993. So the question should be directed to those specialists charged with protecting state secrets:is it possible to keep such information secret without any leaks?
– Why is Russia demanding that the British send a blood sample from the victims?
– From the remains of the chemical agents in the blood, it is possible, with the aid of various types of analyses, to determine where the specific dose was produced and by whom. I suspect that modern methods of analysis have even improved on what we had some 30 years ago.
– Is there even a minimal chance that the victims of the poisoning might recover?
– If Skripal and his daughter received a lethal dose of B-1976, C-1976, or D-1980, then, most likely, they will suffer the same fate as earlier victims. There is no antidote to these agents. I can say with nearly 100% certainty that if Skripal and his daughter are taken off of life support, they will die, although they are now only technically alive.
– Who could know the chemical formula for “Novichok”?
– In Russia, I would estimate, several dozen people.
– Did you ever share the formula? For example, in the media in the mid-1990s, when they were trying to confirm the development of new chemical agents?
– I never shared and I don’t intend to share the chemical formula for those agents.I never said which type of chemical combinations they are produced from. [I have said] only that they are related to the class of new generation nerve paralyzing agents.
– Why did the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) under the United Nations, if one finds their minutes from their meetings to be true, fail three times to find proof of production of this agent (searches began after the publication of Mirzayanov’s book in 2008)?
– It’s impossible to find a black button in a dark room. Moreover, the cat simply wasn’t there,because there wasn’t any production in the USSR, and Russia then was preoccupied with other things. The fact that the OPCW to-tally ignored our mutual statement with Mirzayanov in 1993 about the exis-tence of agents of chemical warfare in Russia was a gross violation of the (Chemical Weapons) Convention, as signatory countries to the Convention are required to report the development of new substances, the most powerful of which are agents of chemical warfare (Russia only signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997 – The Bell).
– The media reported that “Novichok” supposedly exists as a “binary weapon” – the toxin is transferred via two less dangers substances, and when it is time to use the chemical agent, only then are the sub-stances mixed together. It has also been suggested that “Novichok” could have been used for the attempt in London. Are the series of agents referred to as “Novichok” binary weapons?
– No one ever had any binary weapons. I think that several of my collea-gues,just like I did,tried to work on this idea,but I don’t know a single binary weapon, not for VX, not for other types of chemical weapons. At least for the period up until 1994.
– In which form do the nerve paralyzing agents which we refer to as “Novichok” come in?
– Of the four substances, only the last one, D-1980, can be in powder form. The other three are liquid.
– How did British scientists manage to determine that the victims were poisoned with “Novichok”?
– So far, I have only read the confirmation by Theresa May that Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by nerve paralyzing agents. British scientists have not said anything yet.
– What was role did Vil Mirzayanov, now commonly referred to as the developer of “Novichok”, really play in the development of the agent? What was he actually responsible for?
– Mirzayanov didn’t have any role in the creation or even testing of synthe-sis methods to develop the technology behind “Novichok”, as he was in GOSNIIOKHT,and as far as I know, he was the head of the foreign counter-intelligence department. His role, just like his department’s role, was to de-velop methods for control and for controlling the air space around the territory of GOSNIIOKHT in Moscow. His role as a scientist was only chromato-graphy.Valeria Novodvorskaya first referred to Mirzayanov as the developer and “father of ‘Novichok’”, and Mirzayanov, it appears, really liked this, although he himself never confirmed this to be true, but Mirzayanov also never denied it when journalists described him as such.
I believe that it is time to say that Pyotr Petrovich Kirpichev is the only person behind the new type of FOS (organophosphorous compounds), a new category of specialized chemistry, and that this talented and modest chemist was responsible for the scientific discoveries in this area. I find it my duty to state this in his name and in his memory.
– And Leonid Rink, who is referred to in today’s RIA Novosti interview as the developer of “Novichok”, did you know him?
– Leonid Rink did actually work in our institute. But his group was respon-sible for the development [of those substances] only at the very end, when it became clear that a binary agent could not be developed from them. My group and Rink’s group both reported to Kirpichev.Rink’s group was tasked with developing my technology.At that point in time,it was clear to everyone that the days for chemical weapons in the USSR were already numbered.
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Usari: Olet saanut varoituksen asiattomasta sisällöstä Uuden Suomen blogipalvelussa. Varoitus koskee sisältöäsi: Novichok-hermomyrkyn isä Vladimir Uglëv kuollut
Brittiläisen The SUNin juttu on virallista rintamapropagandaa... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/40907821/novichok-inventor-dies-putin-salisbury-poison/ " Salisburyn myrkytystapauksessa käytetyn tappavan Novitšok-aineen kehittänyt venäläistutkija on kuollut mystisesti 80-vuotiaana Harvey Geh, ulkomaanuutisten toimittaja Will Stewart Julkaistu: 4. marraskuuta 2026 klo 09.01
RJK: En voi käsittää, mikä tässä jutussa on sääntöjen vastaista. Kuvat olisi voinut poistaa, jos epäilee. Ne ovat kuitenkin levinneet kaikki maailmalle miljoonittain ja pamahtavat ruutuun, jos kirjoittaa hakusanaksi Skripal tai Navalnyi. Panin näkyville The Sunin, joka tiedetään kaikkea muuta kuin Totuuden Torveksi, mahdollisimman yksisilmäisen jutun sellaisenaan. En korjannut selviä teknisiäkään valheita, kuten että Novichok olisi kauhean vaikeaa havaita. Sitä ovat sen "kilpailijat" fentanyylit, insuliinit, häkäkaasut. Novichok säilyy ja kertyy elimistöön, ja näytteetkin säilyvät varmaan ikuisesti, kuin arsenikki, jota sen vaikutusmekanismi muutenkin muistuttaa.
Sitten pistin silloisia, erityisesti Uglëvin itsensä kriittisiä kirjoituksia ja haastatteluja. Jätin pois sellaisia raflaavia detaljeja, kuin että OPCW erikoistyöryhmä "Navalnyin myrkyttämisen tutkimiseksi (Novichokilla)" on päivätty perustetuksi saman päivän AAMUNA, kun hän vasta illalla joutui Omskissa sairaalaan oireiden takia (joihin hänen Saksassa tutkitun terveydentilansa puolesta olisi voinut olla puolenkymmentä muutakin syytä kuin mikään ainakaan uusi myrkky, mm. diabetes ja tulehdussairaus), ja että Saksan ja EUn parhaaksikin rankattu Beriinin Charité-sairaala ei löytänyt hänen näytteistään Novichokia.
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" UK Defense ministry document reveals Skripals blood samples could have been manipulated
Incredible transformation: Yulia Skripal (left) following the alleged poisoning with the deadliest known nerve agent Novichok. Yulia and her father Sergei Skripal (right) before the alleged nerve agent poisoning.
New evidence has emerged of gross violations during the UK investigation into the alleged poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury on 4th March 2018. The new revelations put into question the main evidence that the Skripals were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok.
The blood samples taken from the Skripals could have been tampered with so that they test positive for Novichok, newly disclosed information obtained from the UK Ministry of Defense reveals. Furthermore, documents show that Russia was not the only country in the world that could be linked to the nerve agent Novichok.
The US had covered up its own Novichok program masked as research on fourth generation nerve agents (FGAs) and muzzled the Organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) a decade before the Skripals attack.
Breach of chain of custody
Newly disclosed information obtained from the UK Ministry of Defense (MOD) under the Freedom of Information Act questions the integrity of the main evidence that the Skripals were poisoned with Novichok, namely their blood samples. The ministry is in charge of the British military laboratory DSTL Porton Down which analyzed the Skripals blood samples and reportedly identified Novichok.
“Our searches have failed to locate any information that provides the exact time that the samples were collected”, the ministry states. The information held by MOD therefore indicates that the samples were collected at some point between 16:15 on 4 March 2018 and 18:45 on 5 March 2018 (the approximate time according to MOD when the samples arrived at DSTL Porton Down). Even the time of arrival at Porton Down is indicated as “approximate”.
The lack of this information is gross violation and breach of the chain of custody. The UK NHS protocol requires that a request form accompany all specimens sent to the laboratory and clearly state the exact (not approximate) date and time of collection. This newly disclosed information questions the whole Skripals Novichok poisoning story. The fact that the chain of custody of these blood samples was broken directly suggests that they could have been manipulated and tampered with.
According to the UK Defense Ministry document, there is no information as to when exactly (date and time) the blood samples were collected. Hence, these samples are inadmissible evidence in court as without a proper chain of custody the samples could have been manipulated and contaminated with Novichok.
A British toxicologist with extensive knowledge in the field of organophosphate pesticide analysis who wishes to remain anonymous for security reasons has reviewed the MOD document: “It is inconceivable that with such a visibility case, and the obvious significance of any and all biological samples, normal and expected sample logging and documentation did not take place. The person drawing the sample, in any clinical or forensic setting knows that the date and time must be recorded, and the donor positively identified. In a criminal case, evidence gleaned from these samples would be thrown out as inadmissible. Custody seals can be broken and re-applied. In a normal blood draw, the donor would sign the seal which is placed over the vials. In this case, with the donors apparently unconscious, then the phlebotomist would do the signing, and be able to later verify his/her signature on the seal. As we don’t know when, or possibly where the samples were taken, it would be difficult to prove that the seals were in fact the original seals. This lack of protocol is either very sloppy or clandestine.”
What is Chain of Custody and why is it important
The chain of custody is the most critical process of evidence documentation. Chain of Custody (CoC), in legal contexts, refers to the system of controls governing the collection, processing and storage of samples. These controls reduce the potential for samples to be accidentally or maliciously tampered with.
A template of Chain of Custody (CoC) form includes detailed information about each person handling the sample(s) from the time of collection to its receipt by the analyst. This essential information is missing in the Skripals case. Even the time of arrival at Porton Down is “approximate” not exact, according to the UK MoD document.
The chain of custody can be broken if:
- a custody form is labeled incorrectly or is missing information such as exact date and time of collection, transfer and receipt
- if a transfer of evidence takes an unreasonable amount of time, or
- if there is reason to believe the evidence was tampered with
Although even one of the above conditions is enough for the chain of custody to be broken, in the Skripals case all three are present:
- According to MoD, there is no information as to when the samples were collected and the time when they arrived at Porton Down is approximate (not exact)
2. The blood samples arrived at Porton Down 25 hours after the Skripals were admitted to hospital, according to MoD. For reference, the distance between the Salisbury district hospital and Porton Down is only 13 km or an 18-minute drive which means that the transfer of evidence took an unreasonable amount of time.
Porton Down is located 13 km from the Salisbury District Hospital.
Source: Google Map
3.There are four reasons to believe the samples were tampered with since:
3.1. None of the people who were in direct contact with the Skripas tested positive for Novichok. According to the UK government, the nerve agent had been sprayed on the door handle of the Skripals house. Yulia and her father Sergei touched the door handle and few hours later the two collapsed simultaneously on a bench in Salisbury. Meanwhile, few minutes after they had reportedly been poisoned by touching the door handle, the Skripals handed bread to three children to feed ducks. One of the children even ate the bread. This was documented by CCTV footage which the police showed to their parents. Despite the direct contact, no one of the children developed any symptoms of poisoning and their blood tests showed no traces of Novichok.
3.2. We have been told that Novichok is the deadliest nerve agent ever developed. However, none of the alleged “Kremlin targets” (the Skripals and Alexei Navalny) died and all made full recovery without any damage to their health or permanent harm. How is it possible that the deadliest nerve agent in the world has caused no harm to any of the targeted victims and they all fully recovered?
3.3. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with the drug Fentanyl, not the Novichok nerve agent, the initial report on the incident reveals. After I published this report on my Twitter account the information was immediately redacted and the drug Fentanyl was deleted from the original version.
3.4 Porton Down, which received and analyzed the blood samples, had already had Novichok prior to the alleged Skripals poisoning, according to British prime minister Boris Johnson. Although the UK Government publicly lied that only Russia could have been the source of the Novichok nerve agent, as it turns out, Porton Down could have also been the source of the Novichok agent identified coincidentally exactly by Porton Down in the Skripals blood samples.
The Navalny case
The chain of custody can be broken if a transfer of evidence takes an unreasonable amount of time. Such is the case with another alleged nerve agent victim – Alexey Navalny. His biological samples were collected in a German hospital and were delayed by 5 days before being transferred to OPCW designated laboratories, an OPCW document reveals.
Alexey Navalny fell sick during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on 20th August 2020 and was taken to a hospital in Omsk following an emergency landing. The Russian hospital identified no poison in his blood and attributed his condition to metabolic disorder. At the request of Navalny’s wife Yulia, Russia allowed the patient to be transported for medical treatment in Germany two days later. Germany announced that Russia had poisoned Navalny with Novichock and requested assistance from OPCW. The following timeline of events as described by OPCW clearly shows that the biomedical samples taken from Navalny were inexplicably delayed by 5 days (working days according to the calendar) before being transferred to OPCW designated laboratories:
According to the OPCW report, biomedical samples were taken from Navalny on 6th September. On 11th of September OPCW received a request from Germany (5 working days after the samples were collected) and sent them to OPCW designated labs for analyses. According to recently declassified correspondence between Germany and OPCW about the Navalny alleged poisoning, “the samples’ transmission to OPCW reference laboratories should only take place after the consent by Germany”. Although the samples had already been collected, Germany delayed its permission by 5 days (working days according to the calendar.) There is no explanation as to why Germany delayed its permission for so many days.
Like the UK, Germany also possessed Novichok prior to the Navalny alleged poisoning. The sample was obtained in the 1990s, according to German media. In a joint report, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the weekly Die Zeit and broadcasters NDR and WDR said Germany’s BND spy agency had secured the sample of the Novichok nerve agent from a Russian scientist. The German media report said the BND had informed the U.S. and British intelligence agencies about the case following the analysis, and small amounts of the poison were later produced in several NATO member states. One of these NATO member states was the US.
Documents reveal how US covered up its own Novichok program as research on FGAs
The US Army produced Novichok A-234 (the same nerve agent identified in the Skripals blood samples) in 1998 and in 2002 launched a special Novichok research program masked as research on Fourth generation agents (FGAs), documents reveal.
Dennis Rohrbaugh from the US Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command’s Edgewood Research Development and Engineering Center added the mass spectrometry profile of the Novichok nerve agent A-234 to the 1998-2001 version (NIST 98) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Mass Spectral Library. The Biochemical facility at Edgewood was making, synthesizing and analysing A-234 for some 20 years before the Skripal attack in Salisbury.
The compound with formula C8H18FN2O2P (Novichok A-234) and the name of the Edgewood chemist who submitted the entry to the 1998 NIST database: Source: NIST98
The NIST edition released after the 1998 version had the spectrum removed. According to information obtained from NIST, the entry was withdrawn at the request of a US government department. The spectrum file still exists in the archive but not in any library since 1998.
In 2001 DoD reported to the US Congress that Russian scientists had been publicizing information on a new generation of agents, sometimes referred to as “Novichoks.” A special group composed of senior intelligence officials and scientists, the Chemical and Biological Agents Action Group (CBAAG), was established to address the Fourth Generation Agents (FGAs) threat. At that point only three generations of nerve agents were known. Novichoks are the new fourth generation of nerve agents (FGAs), according to a 2019 DoD report on Forth Generation agents also known as A-series or Novichok nerve agents.
The report states that “No illicit use or manufacture of an FGA or other nerve agent is known to have occurred in the United States”. Source: Fourth Generation Agents: Reference Guide, January 2019
Pentagon papers show exactly the opposite. The US did manufacture FGAs, according to the 2002 DoD Annual report to Congress.
In 2002 the Pentagon launched two programs: TC2 and TC3 involving research on Fourth Generation Agents (FGAs). Among the 2002 targets the document lists:
- Initiate a program of synthesis, toxicology, screening, and characterization of new threat materials (to include Fourth Generation Agents (FGAs) identified as urgent needs while continuing assessment of long term needs;
- Confirm cardiac pathology seen after exposure to FGAs;
- Perform advanced assessment of medical countermeasures in guinea pigs by evaluation of physiological and histopathological parameters. Evaluate bioscavenger pretreatment as medical countermeasure against FGAs in guinea pigs. Conduct advanced assessment (pharmacokinetic and bioavailability) studies of lead medical countermeasures to FGAs in higher animal species for human efficacy estimation.
- Develop surrogate markers in guinea pigs for alternative medical countermeasures for FGA exposure. Develop downselection criteria for choice of the best of the candidates for improved medical countermeasures to FGA exposure.
Source: DoD Chemical and Biological Defense Program – FY 2001-2003 Performance Plan 2002, Volume II, April 2002US muzzled OPCW Advisory Board Chairman on next generation agents: diplomatic cable
In February 2006, the then chairman of the OPCW scientific advisory board, the Czech Jiri Matousek stated that Novichoks were being developed in Edgewood Research Development and Engineering Center. A diplomatic cable dated 28th February 2006 reveals that the US delegation lied to OPCW that Edgewood was not developing Novichok. Furthermore, a US diplomat forced the Czech Republic to instruct Jiri Matousek not to publicly discuss next generation agents in the future, according to a secret diplomatic cable, entitled: Czechs muzzle Advisory Board chairman on Next Generation Agents (28th March 2006).
Clinton to US diplomats: Avoid discussion on Fourth Generation Agents
A secret cable dated 26 March 2009 from a US delegate to OPCW reported that at a meeting of the OPCW Data Validation Group in The Hague, “representatives of several countries (Finland, Netherlands, UK) had begun discussing the Mirzayanov book on the margins of the meeting”. Few months earlier a former Soviet scientist, who defected to the US, Vil Mirzayanov published a book revealing publicly the chemical formula of a number of Novichok nerve agents. The US delegate requested further guidance. The cable was addressed to the CIA, the National Security Council, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State.
In a subsequent cable dated 3 April 2009 then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instructed the US delegation to the Australia Group (informal association of 42 nations that works to prevent the export of chemical and biological weapons) to:
– Avoid any substantive discussion of the Mirazayanov book “State Secrets: An Insider’s View of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program” or so-called ‘Fourth Generation Agents.’
– If AG participants raise the issue of Vils Mirazayonov’s book “State Secrets: An Insider’s View of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program,” the Del should:
– Report any instances in which the book is raised
– Not start or provoke conversations about the book or engage substantively if it comes up in conversation
– Express a lack of familiarity with the issue
– Quietly discourage substantive discussions by suggesting that the issue is best left to experts in capitals
These diplomatic cables show that the US research on Fourth Generation Agents (Novichok) spanned for at least a decade and was kept secret for unknown reasons. In 2012 the Pentagon outsourced much of its nerve agent research to the UK military lab Dstl Porton Down involving tests with nerve agents on animals. Given that Porton Down had Novichok samples at its disposal prior to the Skripals attack, it is highly likely that Novichok was one of the tested nerve agents.
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Ruåtsin ja Ranskan sotiaslabrat eivät tutkineet mitään omia näytteitä, vaan silmäilivät vain päällisin puolin Bundeswehrin labran raporttia, että muka "ei syytä epäillä", - vaikka Euroopan parhaaksikin usein mainittu Berliinin Charité-sairaala ei ollut löytänyt merkkejä Novichokista.
Fragment of the interview of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov to the TV channel "RTVI", Moscow, September 14, 2020
Question: You have been the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia for 16 years. All the most serious foreign policy challenges of this century have come in your time. Sanctions arose, we began to adapt to them and survived them. Germany announced that it received the results of the analyzes of A. Navalny. France and Sweden have confirmed the presence of "Novichok" in them. Accordingly, as they write, we are now waiting for the following sanctions. Do you think the story with A. Navalny can become a "driver" of new sanctions against Russia?
Foreign Minister Lavrov: I agree with those of our political scientists who are convinced that there would be no A. Navalny and would have come up with something else as a reason for introducing additional sanctions.
As for this situation, it seems to me that our Western partners have simply gone beyond all decency, the framework of reason. In fact, we are now being asked to "confess." We are asked: don't you believe the German specialists of the Bundeswehr? How can this be? Their findings are confirmed by the French and the Swedes. What, you don't believe them either?
A mysterious story, given that on August 27 we sent a request to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia for legal assistance and there is still no answer. For more than a week, the request was in some unknown place. We were told that he was at the German Foreign Ministry. The German Foreign Ministry did not forward the request to the Ministry of Justice, which was the addressee of the letter from the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. Then they said that everything had been transferred to the Berlin Prosecutor's Office, but they would not tell us anything without the consent of the family. They urge us to open a criminal investigation.
We have our own laws, according to which we cannot take our word for it in order to open a criminal case. Certain procedures must be followed. Their observance was the subject of a pre-investigation check that began immediately after this incident and is currently under way, during which all the circumstances of the case were considered.
Some of the Western colleagues wrote that, as the German doctors found out, A. Navalny "was saved by a miracle." Allegedly, this was the most notorious "Novichok", but the Russian citizen was saved thanks to "a happy coincidence." What is this happy coincidence? Firstly, the pilot immediately landed the plane, secondly, an ambulance was already on duty at the ramp, and, thirdly, the doctors immediately began to fulfill their professional duty. This absolutely impeccable behavior of pilots, doctors, and ambulances is presented as "a lucky coincidence." That is, we are even denied that we are acting as we should. It sits deep in the minds of those who compose such things.
Returning to our pre-investigation check. Everyone is fixated on a criminal case. If we started a criminal case today (but we do not yet have legal grounds for this, and that is why the Prosecutor General's Office requested legal assistance from the German side on August 27), what would have been done from the very beginning, when this happened? They would interview the pilot, the passengers of the plane, the doctors. They would have found out what the doctors found out at the stage when A. Navalny was taken to the Omsk hospital, what drugs were used. They would interview those who communicated with him. And all this was done: they interviewed the five who accompanied him and participated in the events of the previous days before A. Navalny got on the plane; interviewed those who were expecting a flight to Moscow from Tomsk and treated themselves to him at the bar, found out what they ordered, what he drank. The sixth lady who accompanied him,as you know, she ran away. They say it was she who gave the bottle to the German laboratory. All this has been done. Even if all this were called a "criminal case", we can not do more.
Against this background, Western partners look at us with arrogance: we have no right to doubt their correctness and professionalism. If this is so, it means that they dare to doubt the professionalism of our doctors and investigators. This is a position that, unfortunately, is beginning to resemble other times. Arrogance and a sense of one's own infallibility have already been observed in Europe and led to very sad consequences.
Sergei Lavrov
