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    Lets not forget:
    Skripals poisoning: Trump agreed on a second package of sanctions against the Kremlin - media

    On Thursday, August 1, President of the United States of America Donald Trump signed an executive decree imposing new sanctions against Russia because of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia in British Salisbury.

    According to The New York Times , the US president took this step in response to increased pressure from Congress to take additional measures to punish Moscow in connection with the use of nerve agent against Skripals last year. See also Russia must pay for the annexation of Crimea and the poisoning of Skripals - British Defense This is the second stage of the sanctions that the Trump Administration applies after the poisoning of the Skripals.

    The imposition of sanctions occurred the day after a telephone conversation between US Presidents Donald Trump and the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, during which Trump focused on forest fires in Siberia. At the same time, the White House’s official statement on sanctions was not discussed.



    https://www.unian.net/world/10638348...emlya-smi.html

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    What a load of bollix. A drop of nerve agent the size of a pin head can kill a buffalo in 4 minutes. Atropine which is the antidote for nerve agent poisoning has too administered. And now they want us to believe this shit.

    Salisbury attack: Second police officer poisoned with novichok after attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal


    A second police officer was poisoned with novichok in Salisbury, investigators have revealed.
    Traces of the nerve agent were found in the Wiltshire Police officer's blood after they responded to the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in March 2018.
    "​The officer from Wiltshire Police, who does not wish to be identified, was involved in the response to the poisoning," a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said.
    "The officer displayed signs at the time of the incident that indicated exposure to a very small amount of novichok. The officer received appropriate medical treatment for this at the time and returned to duties shortly afterwards."


    Investigators said a sample of the officer's blood was taken at the time and analysed by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down.
    "The forensic test – which uses a different method to that used to assess the clinical effects of nerve agent poisoning – has now given detectives confirmation that traces of novichok were in the blood sample," a spokesperson added.
    Only one police officer, DS Nick Bailey, was previously known to have been poisoned after being sent to Mr Skripal's home.

    Two Russian suspects identified as GRU agents had applied novichok to the front door of the property, in a quiet cul-de-sac.


    Mr Skripal, a former Russian double agent, was left in intensive care with his daughter but they survived after specialist treatment and remain in hiding.

    DS Bailey also recovered and recently ran a marathon in support of the hospital unit that cared for him.


    Months following the initial attack, a counterfeit perfume bottle containing novichok was unwittingly picked up by a local man, who gave it to his girlfriend as a present.
    Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother, died after applying the nerve agent directly to her wrists in Amesbury.
    The suspects for the Skripal poisoning – Anatoliy Chepiga, aka Ruslan Boshirov, and Dr Alexander Mishkin, aka Alexander Petrov - flew to the UK under fake identities and left hours after the attack.
    They have been charged over the attempted assassination and are the subject of Interpol red notices and European Arrest Warrants, but police have admitted they will most likely never be captured.
    The investigative website Bellingcat recently revealed that a third Russian agent who traveled to London in March 2018 may have commanded the attack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pragmatic View Post
    "​The officer from Wiltshire Police, who does not wish to be identified, was involved in the response to the poisoning," a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said.
    Does he have any say in such an important matter?

    Carrying the CW to and from Porton Down?

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    US announced new sanctions against Russia


    The US State Department announced the introduction of a second package of anti-Russian sanctions in the case of the Skripals poisoning. Sanctions will take effect on August 26, TASS reports citing the US Federal Register.

    Earlier this month, it was reported that the Russian embassy in Washington saw in the adoption of new sanctions "the US neglect of the principle of the presumption of innocence," and Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called them a frank provocation.

    On August 2, US President Donald Trump signed a decree introducing a second package of restrictive measures against Russia, including a ban on the provision of non-ruble loans to the Russian government . The American side called the reason for the new sanctions that Moscow did not provide guarantees that the situation with the Skripals would not be repeated.

    Former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were found unconscious on a bench in the British city of Salisbury on March 4, 2018. Specialists found that they were poisoned with a nerve agent. London accused Moscow of what happened. Russia denies any involvement in the incident.

    https://lenta.ru/news/2019/08/23/punished_again/

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    (Aren't they lucky to be so cared-for?)

    British Ambassador spoke about the fate of the Skripals

    Former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia , poisoned in Salisbury in 2018, are now alive and protected by the British government. This was told by the British Ambassador to Russia, Lori Bristow, his words are quoted in his Telegram channel by the editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station Alexei Venediktov .

    “They were given an invitation from the Russian embassy to meet. They did not want to accept him. And they can be understood, ”concluded the ambassador.

    In early December, the German Prosecutor General's Office began its own investigation into the poisoning of Sergei and Julia Skripale. Also, the Federal Criminal Office will deal with the proceedings. In particular, it is held against two alleged employees of the GRU (now the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation) Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov .

    They creaked, according to the British authorities, on March 4, 2018, they were poisoned with the “Novichok” developed in the USSR as a result of an operation involving GRU employees. In London, it is believed that the attack was authorized by the top leadership of Russia. Later, the names of the alleged poisoners were named - they turned out to be some Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Moscow denies involvement in the Skripals.

    According to an investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider, Boshirov is actually a staff member of Russian military intelligence, Colonel Anatoly Chepiga , and Petrov is a military doctor, GRU officer Alexander Mishkin .

    https://lenta.ru/news/2019/12/17/skripal/

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    RT loses challenge against claims of bias in novichok reporting
    Kremlin-backed channel fails to overturn Ofcom ruling that also related to Syria coverage

    The Kremlin-backed news channel RT has lost a high court challenge to overturn a ruling by the UK media regulator that it broadcast biased programmes relating to the novichok poisoning in Salisbury and the war in Syria.


    Ofcom fined RT £200,000 after determining that seven programmes, including two presented by the former MP George Galloway, were in breach of UK broadcasting rules relating to due impartiality regarding matters of political controversy.


    The programmes fronted by Galloway, a regular presenter on the 24-hour news channel, covered the poisoning of the Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury two years ago. While the poisoning was blamed on Russia, Galloway cast doubt on the assertion.

    Ofcom also found that four news and current affairs broadcasts addressing the US’s involvement in the Syrian conflict, and a news programme concerning the Ukrainian government’s position on Nazism and the treatment of Roma people, breached impartiality rules.


    RT contended that Ofcom had not taken into account the fact that the “dominant media narrative” at the time of the poisonings – that Russia was to blame – meant it could leave that view out of its own programming. The broadcaster also said the requirement to be impartial interfered with its right to freedom of expression.


    Lord Justice Dingemans, who delivered the high court judgment remotely on Friday, said the requirement for media to be balanced was paramount in the era of fake news.

    “At present, the broadcast media maintains a reach and immediacy that remains unrivalled by other media,” he said. “Indeed, there is reason to consider that the need [for due impartiality] is at least as great, if not greater than ever before, given current concerns about the effect on the democratic process of news manipulation and of fake news.”


    He said RT was not restricted from broadcasting its point of view on the Salisbury poisonings, the war on Syria or events in Ukraine. “The only requirement was that, in the programme as broadcast, RT provided balance to ensure that there was ‘due impartiality’,” he said.


    The judge said the “wider contextual factors” that RT relied upon to challenge Ofcom’s ruling were “not relevant and would serve to undermine the legislative objectives which the due impartiality regime is designed to safeguard”.

    The judge said RT’s “concept of a dominant media narrative is a nebulous one, which it would be difficult to define, let alone identify by any acceptable criteria in a particular case.”


    He added: “In any event the chilling effect that such uncertainty would or might produce for the broadcast media, would, in my judgment, be likely to inhibit rather than enhance their freedom of expression.”.


    The judge also said there was “no error of approach” by Ofcom in reaching its ruling. “Ofcom’s decision as to breach and sanction were well within the applicable margin,” he said.


    The high court said Ofcom’s ruling that RT was in breach of the broadcasting code followed a “long and detailed appraisal which paid careful attention to the rights of RT and the need for proportionality”.


    An Ofcom spokeswoman said: “Trust in news and current affairs has never been more important, and RT’s failures to preserve due impartiality were serious and repeated. So we welcome today’s judgment that our investigation and decisions were fair and proportionate.”


    An RT spokesman said: “We are aware of the court’s decision, and we intend to appeal.”


    RT loses challenge against claims of bias in novichok reporting | Media | The Guardian

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    RT - the network that makes Fox News look unbiased.

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    'arry - a creature that makes any agent provocateur look unbiased...

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    RT - the network that makes Fox News look unbiased.
    To be fair, they are both cut from the same cloth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    To be fair, they are both cut from the same cloth.
    Except it seems Fox has a lot more influence with the bald orange twat and he often repeats bollocks that Fox has come out with earlier.

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    Britain Names Third Russian Behind Skripal Poisoning


    British police on Tuesday said there was enough evidence to charge a third Russian man with the Novichok poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury in 2018.


    Counter-terrorism detectives said prosecutors had reviewed the evidence against a man identified as Sergey Fedotov for him to be charged with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder, causing grievous bodily harm, and possession and use of a chemical weapon.

    Skripal and his daughter were left fighting for their lives after the attack, which soured diplomatic ties between Britain and Russia that were already strained by the 2006 radiation poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko.


    In a letter read out after his death in a London hospital, former KGB agent Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind the attack.

    A police officer investigating the Skripal case was also left seriously ill, while a local Salisbury woman who came into contact with the weapons-grade substance later died.


    Two other men have previously been identified as suspects in the poisoning. All three are said to be members of Russia's GRU military intelligence service.


    The head of special crime and counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, Nick Price, said specialist prosecutors had reviewed the evidence against the third suspect, who is also known as Denis Sergeev.


    They "have concluded that there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction and that it is clearly in the public interest to charge Sergey Fedotov," he added.


    "We will not be applying to Russia for the extradition of Sergey Fedotov as the Russian constitution does not permit extradition of its own nationals."


    "Russia has made this clear following requests for extradition in other cases. Should this position change then an extradition request would be made."


    Britain Names Third Russian Behind Skripal Poisoning - The Moscow Times

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    Ah yes I posted that in the Vlad the Dictator thread with the title "Filthy Russian Scum".

    As well as the one about the filthy russian scum murdering Litvinenko, too.

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