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Salisbury poisoning suspect was 'awarded top military honour by Putin'

Investigative webste Bellingcat has claimed that the second suspect in the Salisbury poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal is a Russian doctor who received a top military honour from President Vladimir Putin

"Ruslan Boshirov" and "Alexander Petrov" in an interview with Russia Today

Good Morning Europe 09/10/2018

Second Skripal poisoning suspect was decorated as a hero by Putin in 2014: Bellingcat

Alexander Mishkin, the second man accused of poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, was decorated as a hero by Putin in 2014, said investigative group Bellingcat.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on a vist to India, 5 October.

View 08/10/2018

Will the Council of Europe become Putin’s trophy? | View

A vote by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) this week will decide whether Russia will be readmitted to Europe's biggest human rights organisation without sanctions and without fulfilling any of PACE's preconditions.

Russia 05/10/2018

Yevgeny Makarov’s case sheds light on what life is like for Russian prisoners

Allegations of ill-treatment of prisoners in Russian prisons are not new but Yevgeny Makarov's torture case has brought them to limelight again.

Netherlands 04/10/2018

US government charges seven Russian intelligence officers with hacking: AP

US government charges seven Russian intelligence officers with hacking reports AP.

Good Morning Europe 04/10/2018

UK Foreign Secretary calls out Russian cyberattacks in pointed statement

"We will expose the Russian intelligence service" - the message from British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt as Britain takes aim at Russia. The UK foreign office is blaming Russian intelligence services for six cyber-attacks in an aggressive statement that directly implicates Vladimir Putin.

President Putin visits GRU military intelligence HQ, Moscow, November 2006

Davos 04/10/2018

UK blames Kremlin for ‘reckless’ cyber attacks

Britain accuses Russian military intelligence of an indiscriminate campaign of cyber attacks aimed at disrupting politics and everyday life in the West.

brussels bureau 03/10/2018

After Poland and Hungary... Romania

EU Commission and European Parliament warn Bucharest not to jettison rule-based democracy

Kay Bailey Hutchison is the US ambassador to NATO.

Belgium 03/10/2018

US walks back threat to 'take out' Russian missiles

The US accuses Russia of violating a 1987 treaty banning both countries from developing medium-range warheads.

Sport 30/09/2018

Russian Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton wins

It's his eighth win of the season. His team mate Bottas is second. The gap between Hamilton and Vettel is 50 points

Russia 28/09/2018

Russian enthusiast showcases Soviet car collection

A former race-car mechanic has amassed hundreds of rust-bucket Soviet cars, symbols of a vibrant automobile industry that crashed with the fall of the Soviet Union.

no comment 28/09/2018

Few sales after hundreds queue for new iPhones in Moscow

Hundreds of Russians braved the cold and rain to queue for days outside a Moscow phone store ahead of the release of the new Apple iPhones on Friday, but when the doors opened none stepped in to buy.

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov in a Metropolitan Police handout

Good Morning Europe 27/09/2018

Man charged in novichok poisoning named as Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga

One of the suspects in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury has been named as a highly-decorated officer in Russia’s military special forces by investigative website Bellingcat. The man previously named as Ruslan Boshirov is said to be in fact Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.