Salisbury named UK's 'best place to live' following Novichok attack
Salisbury, where a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, has been named the best place to live in the United Kingdom.
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Salisbury, where a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, has been named the best place to live in the United Kingdom.
The son of a woman killed after a Novichok attack against ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to hand over two suspects to the UK for questioning.
The English city of Salisbury has been officially declared free of the nerve agent Novichok, after authorities spent nearly a year decontaminating potentially toxic sites tied to the poisoning of the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, last March.
The US State Department is continuing to punt on its congressionally mandated obligations to hold Russia accountable for poisoning an ex-spy in the United Kingdom, and despite its continued insistence that it would consult with Congress on the matter, multiple Hill sources tell CNN no such consultations have occurred.
Russia has threatened "retaliatory measures" after the European Union slapped sanctions on senior members of its intelligence agency, the GRU.
The UK has assessed that the brazenness of the attacks that killed one Briton and sickened a former Russian spy and his daughter — including the amount of nerve agent used — point to approval by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, two officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
Hands doused with nerve agent, radioactive tea, a poison dart hidden in an umbrella.
The Russian agent who a British investigative outlet identifies as a suspect in the nerve agent poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter has reportedly received a hero's honor from President Vladimir Putin.
The investigative website that claimed to have uncovered the real identity of one of two Russian agents involved in the Novichok poisonings in the UK earlier this year has now named the second one.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday dismissed the furor over the Salisbury nerve-agent poisoning, calling former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal a "traitor" and a "scumbag" and suggesting the incident was being "artificially blown up" by the media.