Sergey Skripal's house. File photoLONDON, May 30.The authorities of the English city of Salisbury put up for sale the house in which Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned, writes the British newspaper Telegraph. sold in shared ownership. Only local residents can buy a four-room house, while the local government will retain at least 25%. In Salisbury, on March 4, 2018, former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, who was previously convicted in the Russian Federation for treason, and his daughter were poisoned Julia, which provoked an international scandal. On July 4, 2018 — four months after the Skripals were poisoned — British police reported a «serious incident» in the city of Amesbury, where two people were «under the influence of an unknown substance» and were hospitalized in critical condition. Scotland Yard later confirmed that the man and woman were poisoned with the same substance as the Skripals. On July 8, 44-year-old Don Sturges, who had been poisoned, died at the Salisbury District Hospital. The second victim, 45-year-old Charlie Rowley, survived.Naryshkin recalled the alleged poisoning of ex-Russian intelligence officers London believes that the Russian state was involved in the poisoning of the Skripals with substance A234, and Sturges became an accidental victim after her partner Rowley gave her a bottle of a substance found in the park with a substance that he considered perfume. Moscow categorically denies this. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the «Skripal case» is crumbling before our eyes due to the lack of any evidence of Russia's guilt. The Russian Foreign Ministry sent dozens of diplomatic notes to the Foreign Office demanding that Russia be granted access to the investigation, affected citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as with a request for legal assistance and proposals for cooperation, including a joint investigation. On August 20, 2020, Alexei Navalny was hospitalized in Omsk after he became ill on the plane on the way from Tomsk. According to the results of examinations, Omsk doctors called the main diagnosis a metabolic disorder that caused a sharp change in blood sugar. What caused it is still unclear, but according to Omsk doctors, no poisons were found in Navalny's blood and urine. Later he was transported by plane to Germany. After that, the German government stated, citing military doctors, that Navalny was allegedly poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group of poisonous warfare agents. Later, the German Cabinet announced that the conclusions of German experts were confirmed by the laboratories of Sweden and France, in parallel, the OPCW, at the request of Berlin, is conducting its own research. In this regard, the Kremlin stated that Berlin did not inform Moscow of its findings, and the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that Russia is waiting for a response from Germany to an official request on this situation: in a month, Russia sent Germany three requests for legal assistance on the situation with Navalny, the answers not received on them. Even on the day of Navalny's hospitalization, the prosecutor's office and the police began to carry out their checks. after the incident with Navalny, he said that it was a planned provocation aimed at discrediting Russia, the case was promoted by the West to contain the country and new attacks on it. The ministry noted that Berlin did not provide any verifiable evidence of its accusations against the Russian Federation, and the OPCW «wrapped up» Moscow's request for assistance, preventing the initiation of a case. The Russian side asked the Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain and the OPCW a number of questions about the incident with Navalny. Including about Maria Pevchikh, who accompanied Navalny during the incident with him. Among the questions were — for what reasons Russian investigators are not given the opportunity to interview Pevchikh, why traces of certain chemicals were found on the bottle of water she bought in the departure zone, and why this material evidence was not subsequently handed over to Russian law enforcement officers.
