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Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the Glossary

The poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, also known as the Salisbury Poisonings, was a botched assassination attempt to poison Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence agencies in the city of Salisbury, England on 4 March 2018. Sergei and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned by means of a Novichok nerve agent.^[1]

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A-234 (nerve agent)

A-234 is an organophosphate nerve agent. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and a-234 (nerve agent) are Novichok agents.

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Ahmet Üzümcü

Ahmet Üzümcü (born August 30, 1951) is a Turkish career diplomat, who previously served as the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

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Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (30 August 1962 (at WebCite) or 4 December 1962 – 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime.

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Alexander Mishkin

Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin (Алекса́ндр Евге́ньевич Ми́шкин) is a doctor in the Russian General Staff's Main Directorate (also known as GRU), the military intelligence service of the Russian Federation.

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Alexander Perepilichny

Alexander Yurevich Perepilichny (Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Перепели́чный,; 15 July 1968 – 10 November 2012) was a Russian businessman and whistleblower who died while jogging near London in 2012, after leaving Russia in 2009.

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Alexander Yakovenko (diplomat)

Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko (Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Якове́нко; born 21 October 1954) is a Russian diplomat.

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Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE; Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe, ADLE) is a transnational alliance between two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and the European Democratic Party.

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Amber Rudd

Amber Augusta Rudd (born 1 August 1963) is a British former politician who served as Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019.

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Amesbury

Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

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Anatoly Chepiga

Anatoly Vladimirovich Chepiga (Анатолий Владимирович Чепига, born 5 April 1979) is a colonel in the Russian General Staff's Main Directorate (also known as GRU), the military intelligence service of the Russian Federation.

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Andrey Klimov (politician)

Andrey Arkadyevich Klimov (Андрей Аркадьевич Климов; born 9 November 1954) is a Russian politician serving as a senator from Perm Krai since 2 July 2012.

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Andrey Lugovoy

Andrey Konstantinovich Lugovoy (Андре́й Константи́нович Лугово́й; born 19 September 1966), also spelled Lugovoi, is a Russian politician and businessman and deputy of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, for the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

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Anthrax

Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

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Assassination of Kim Jong-nam

On 13 February 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the older half-brother of the dictator of North Korea Kim Jong Un, was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bellingcat

Bellingcat (stylised bell¿ngcat) is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT).

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Bideford

Bideford is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, South West England.

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Bill Browder

Sir William Felix Browder, (born 23 April 1964) is an American-born English financier and political activist.

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BMW 3 Series

The BMW 3 Series is a line of compact executive cars manufactured by the German automaker BMW since May 1975.

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Border Force

Border Force (BF) is a British law enforcement command within the Home Office, responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail ports in the United Kingdom.

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Boris Berezovsky (businessman)

Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Борис Абрамович Березовский; 23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013), also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022.

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Bow Church DLR station

Bow Church is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Bow, London, England.

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Bow, London

Bow is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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British intelligence agencies

The Government of the United Kingdom maintains several intelligence agencies that deal with secret intelligence.

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British royal family

The British royal family comprises King Charles III and his close relations.

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Bulgarian umbrella

A Bulgarian umbrella is an umbrella with a hidden pneumatic mechanism which injects a small poisonous pellet containing ricin.

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Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms

The Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR) are meeting rooms in the Cabinet Office in London.

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Channel One Russia

Channel One (t) is a Russian state-controlled television channel.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England.

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Chemical Weapons Convention

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, is an arms control treaty administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands.

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Christopher Busby

Christopher Busby (born 1 September 1945) is a British scientist primarily studying the health effects of internal ionising radiation.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Consulate General of Russia, San Francisco

The Consulate-General of Russia in San Francisco was a diplomatic mission in the 2790 Green Street building in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Consulate General of Russia, San Francisco are Russia–United States relations.

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Consulate-General of the United Kingdom, Saint Petersburg

The Consulate-General of the United Kingdom in Saint Petersburg was part of the diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in the Russian Federation, before it was closed down in 2018. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Consulate-General of the United Kingdom, Saint Petersburg are Russia–United Kingdom relations.

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Council of the European Union

The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union.

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Counter Terrorism Command

Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) or SO15 is a Specialist Operations branch within London's Metropolitan Police Service.

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Counter Terrorism Policing

Counter Terrorism Policing is the national collaboration of police forces working to prevent, deter, and investigate terrorism in the United Kingdom.

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Court of Protection

The Court of Protection in English law is a superior court of record created under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

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Crime scene

A crime scene is any location that may be associated with a committed crime.

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Crown Prosecution Service

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales.

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Defence CBRN Centre

The Defence Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Centre (the Defence CBRN Centre or DCBRNC for short) is a United Kingdom military facility at Winterbourne Gunner in Wiltshire, south of Porton Down and about north-east of Salisbury.

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Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom.

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Delfi (web portal)

Delfi (occasionally capitalized as DELFI) is a news website in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania providing daily news, ranging from gardening to politics.

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Denis Sergeev (GRU officer)

Denis Vyacheslavovich Sergeev, in Europe alias Sergej Fedotov (born 1973 in Usharal, Kazakhstan) is a Russian officer of military intelligence service GRU.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Diplomatic expulsions during the Russo-Ukrainian War

In the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War, many Russian diplomats and embassy officials were declared personae non gratae by countries around the world in 2022, and many foreign diplomats were also formally asked to leave Russia after their accreditation was cancelled. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Diplomatic expulsions during the Russo-Ukrainian War are Russian intelligence operations and Russian spies.

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Dmitry Kiselyov

Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselyov (Дмитрий Константинович Киселёв; born April 26, 1954) is a Russian TV presenter and propagandist.

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Dmitry Peskov

Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov (p; born 17 October 1967) is a Russian diplomat and the press secretary for Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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Double agent

In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organization for the target organization.

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Douma chemical attack

On 7 April 2018, a chemical warfare attack was launched by the forces of the government of Bashar al-Assad in the city of Douma, Syria. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Douma chemical attack are chemical weapons attacks.

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Eastern Economic Forum

Eastern Economic Forum (Восточный экономический форум or ВЭФ) is an international forum held each year in Vladivostok, Russia, for the purpose of encouraging foreign investment in the Russian Far East.

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Echo of Moscow

Echo of Moscow (translit) was a 24/7 commercial Russian radio station based in Moscow.

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Embassy of Russia, London

The Embassy of Russia in London is the diplomatic mission of Russia in the United Kingdom. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Embassy of Russia, London are Russia–United Kingdom relations.

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Emergency service

Emergency services and rescue services are organizations that ensure public safety, security, and health by addressing and resolving different emergencies.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English law

English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Explosive Substances Act 1883

The Explosive Substances Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 3) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz), abbreviated BMUV, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Federal Security Service

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.

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Federation Council (Russia)

The Federation Council, unofficially Senate, is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia.

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Federica Mogherini

Federica Mogherini (born 16 June 1973) is an Italian politician who served as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019.

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Foreign Affairs Council

The Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) is a configuration of the Council of the European Union that convenes once a month.

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Foreign Affairs Select Committee

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee is one of many select committees of the British House of Commons, which scrutinises the expenditure, administration and policy of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Frans Timmermans

Franciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria "Frans" Timmermans (born 6 May 1961) is a Dutch politician who served as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal and European Commissioner for Climate Action in the von der Leyen Commission from 2019 until his resignation in 2023.

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Gatwick Airport

London Gatwick, also known as Gatwick Airport, is the secondary international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

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Gavin Williamson

Sir Gavin Alexander Williamson (born 25 June 1976) is a British politician who most recently served as Minister of State without Portfolio from 25 October to 8 November 2022. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Gavin Williamson are Russia–United Kingdom relations.

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Georgi Markov

Georgi Ivanov Markov (Георги Иванов Марков; 1 March 1929 – 11 September 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident writer.

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Gillingham, Dorset

Gillingham is a town and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England.

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Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)

Good Morning Britain (often abbreviated to GMB) is a British breakfast television programme that is broadcast on ITV.

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Government of Russia

The government of Russia (Pravitelstvo Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the federal executive body of state power of the Russian Federation.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.

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GRU (Russian Federation)

The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,r formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate,(p) and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU,p, is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

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GRU Unit 29155

Unit 29155 is a Russian military intelligence (GRU) unit associated with foreign assassinations and other activities apparently aimed at destabilizing European countries.

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Guy Verhofstadt

Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt (born 11 April 1953) is a Belgian liberal and European federalist politician.

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Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Hero of the Russian Federation

Hero of the Russian Federation (p), also unofficially called Hero of Russia (p), is the highest honorary title of the Russian Federation.

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High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP) is the chief co-ordinator and representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) within the European Union (EU).

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Home Office

The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Home Secretary

The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the Home Secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Igor Korobov

Colonel General Igor Valentinovich Korobov (И́горь Валенти́нович Ко́робов; 3 August 1956 – 21 November 2018) was the Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Russia's military intelligence agency previously known as the GRU.

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Intelligence agencies of Russia

The intelligence agencies of the Russian Federation, often unofficially referred to in Russian as Special services (Спецслужбы), include.

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Iraq and weapons of mass destruction

Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs as required by the United Nations Security Council.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Izvestia

Izvestia (p, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia.

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Jens Stoltenberg

Jens Stoltenberg, OMC (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th secretary general of NATO since 2014.

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Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983.

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King's Police Medal

The King's Police Medal (KPM) is awarded to police in the United Kingdom for gallantry or distinguished service.

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Kirill Kleimyonov

Kirill Alekseevich Kleimyonov (Кири́лл Алексе́евич Клеймёнов; born 20 September 1972, Moscow) is a Russian journalist, broadcaster, Deputy General Director — Head of the Directorate of Information Programs — a member of the Board of Directors of the Channel One Russia.

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Landfill

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials.

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Laurie Bristow

Sir Laurence Stanley Charles Bristow (born 23 November 1963) is a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to Afghanistan between June and November 2021, notably during the fall of Kabul.

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Levada Center

The Levada Center is a Russian independent, nongovernmental polling and sociological research organization.

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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia

The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia (Russian: Британский Посол в России) is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Russian Federation and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Russia.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations

The United States ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

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Lists of poisonings

These are lists of poisonings, deliberate and accidental, in chronological order by the date of death of the victim(s).

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Margarita Simonyan

Margarita Simonovna Simonyan (born 6 April 1980) is a Russian media executive.

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Mark Sedwill

Mark Philip Sedwill, Baron Sedwill, (born 21 October 1964) is a British diplomat and senior civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson from 2018 to 2020.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Member of the European Parliament

A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly known as the Metropolitan Police, which is still its common name, serves as the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.

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Ministry of Defence (Russia)

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации; MOD) is the governing body of the Russian Armed Forces.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; Министерство иностранныхдел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) is the central government institution charged with leading the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia.

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Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MVD; Министерство внутреннихдел, Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del) is the interior ministry of Russia.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.

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National Security Adviser (United Kingdom)

The National Security Adviser (NSA) is a senior official in the Cabinet Office, based in Whitehall, who serves as the principal adviser to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Cabinet of the United Kingdom on all national security issues.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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NDTV

New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nikki Haley

Nimarata Nikki Haley (née Randhawa; born January 20, 1972) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 116th governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and as the 29th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 to December 2018.

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Norbert Röttgen

Norbert Alois Röttgen (born 2 July 1965) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

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Novaya Gazeta

(p) is an independent Russian newspaper.

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Novichok

Novichok (lit) is a family of nerve agents, some of which are binary chemical weapons. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Novichok are Novichok agents.

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Old Sarum

Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Old Sarum are history of Salisbury.

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Oleg Gordievsky

Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London.

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Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organisation and the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997.

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Our Guys in Salisbury

Our Guys in Salisbury (translit) is a Russian board game that depicts the route of Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin from Moscow to the 2018 Salisbury poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.

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PA Media (formerly the Press Association) is a multimedia news agency.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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Persona non grata

In diplomacy, a persona non grata (PNG) (Latin: "person not welcome", plural: personae non gratae) is a foreign diplomat who is asked by the host country to be recalled to their home country.

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Personal protective equipment

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection.

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Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Litvinenko was an officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and its predecessor, the KGB, until he left the service and fled the country in autumn 2000. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko are Russia–United Kingdom relations and state-sponsored terrorism.

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Poisoning of Alexei Navalny

On 20 August 2020, Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent and as a result, he was hospitalized in serious condition. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Poisoning of Alexei Navalny are chemical weapons attacks and Novichok agents.

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Police Federation of England and Wales

The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is the statutory staff association for police constables, sergeants, inspectors, chief inspectors and special constables in the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales.

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Polkovnik

(pułkownik; lit) is a military rank used mostly in Slavic-speaking countries which corresponds to a colonel in English-speaking states, coronel in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking states and oberst in several German-speaking and Scandinavian countries.

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Polonium

Polonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Po and atomic number 84.

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Polonium-210

Polonium-210 (210Po, Po-210, historically radium F) is an isotope of polonium.

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Port

A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.

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Porton Down

Porton Down is a science and defence technology campus in Wiltshire, England, just north-east of the village of Porton, near Salisbury.

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Prepaid mobile phone

A prepaid mobile device, also known as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG), pay-as-you-talk, pay and go, go-phone, prepay, or burner phone, is a mobile device such as a phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service use.

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Prezzo (restaurant)

Prezzo Trading Limited, trading as Prezzo ("price" in Italian), is a restaurant chain serving mostly Italian cuisine in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Public Health England

Public Health England (PHE) was an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in England which began operating on 1 April 2013 to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.

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Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps

Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; known as the QAs) is the nursing branch of the British Army Medical Services.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

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Reconnaissance

In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rex Tillerson

Rex Wayne Tillerson (born March 23, 1952) is an American energy executive who served as the 69th United States secretary of state from 2017 to 2018 in the administration of Donald Trump.

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RIA Novosti

RIA Novosti (РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN or RIA (label), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Marines

The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).

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Royal Tank Regiment

The Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is the oldest tank unit in the world, being formed by the British Army in 1916 during the First World War.

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RT (TV network)

RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya; Россия Сегодня) is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government.

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Russia–NATO relations

Relations between the NATO military alliance and the Russian Federation were established in 1991 within the framework of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Russia–NATO relations are Russia–United States relations.

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Russian Far East

The Russian Far East (p) is a region in North Asia.

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Russian oligarchs

Russian oligarchs (oligarkhi) are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Russian spies in the Russo-Ukrainian War

In the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War, in the time leading up to and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of citizens of the Russian Federation and of other nationalities working for Russia have been identified publicly as spies or agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russia's foreign intelligence service (SVR) or the third intelligence arm, the military intelligence service (GRU). Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Russian spies in the Russo-Ukrainian War are diplomatic incidents, Russia–United Kingdom relations, Russia–United States relations, Russian intelligence operations and Russian spies.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.

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Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Salisbury, England.

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Salisbury District Hospital

Salisbury District Hospital is a large hospital on Odstock Road, Britford, Wiltshire, England, about south of the centre of the city of Salisbury.

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Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust based in Salisbury that covers South Wiltshire, North and East Dorset and South West Hampshire.

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Sandworm (hacker group)

Sandworm is an advanced persistent threat operated by Military Unit 74455, a cyberwarfare unit of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service.

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Saratov Oblast

Saratov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District.

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Second May ministry

The second May ministry was formed on 11 June 2017 after Theresa May returned to office following the June 2017 snap general election.

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Secretary General of NATO

The secretary general of NATO is the chief civil servant of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an intergovernmental military alliance with 32 member states.

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Secretary of State for Defence

The secretary of state for defence, also known as the defence secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Ministry of Defence.

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Sergei Skripal

Sergei Viktorovich Skripal (p; born 23 June 1951) is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the United Kingdom's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Сергей Викторович Лавров; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat who has served as the foreign minister of Russia since 2004.

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Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov

Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov (Сергей Владимирович Черкасов), also known as Victor Muller Ferreira, In: justice.gov, March 24, 2023. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov are Russian spies.

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Sheremetyevo International Airport

Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport (ʂɨrʲɪˈmʲetʲjɪvə) is one of four international airports that serve the city of Moscow.

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Shikhany

Shikhany, also spelled Shikhansky (Шиханы) is a closed town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, north of Saratov on the right bank of the Volga River Population:.

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South Western Ambulance Service

The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is the organisation responsible for providing ambulance services for the National Health Service (NHS) across South West England.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spiez

Spiez is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern.

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Spiez Laboratory

The Spiez Laboratory (German: Labor Spiez, French: Laboratoire de Spiez, Italian: Laboratorio Spiez) is the Swiss institute for the protection of the population against nuclear, biological and chemical threats and dangers.

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State Duma

The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia.

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State media are typically understood as media outlets that are owned, operated, or significantly influenced by the government.

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Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.

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Super recogniser

"Super recogniser" is a term coined in 2009 by Harvard and University College London researchers for people with significantly better-than-average face recognition ability.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Telephone numbers in Russia

Telephone numbers in Russia are administered by Roskomnadzor, and Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Insider (website)

The Insider is an online publication specializing in investigative journalism, fact-checking, and exposing fake news.

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The Moscow Times

The Moscow Times is an independent English-language and Russian-language online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Salisbury Poisonings

The Salisbury Poisonings is a fact-based drama television series, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and Annabel Scholey which portrays the 2018 Novichok poisonings and decontamination crisis in Salisbury, England, and the subsequent Amesbury poisonings. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and the Salisbury Poisonings are 2010s in Wiltshire and Russia–United Kingdom relations.

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The Sun (United Kingdom)

The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp. It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Theresa May

Theresa Mary, Lady May (born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019.

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Tom Tugendhat

Thomas Georg John Tugendhat (born 27 June 1973) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonbridge, previously Tonbridge and Malling, since 2015.

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TPz Fuchs

The TPz Fuchs from Transportpanzer Fuchs is a German armoured personnel carrier originally developed by Daimler-Benz, and manufactured and further developed by the now Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV).

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Tracheotomy

Tracheotomy, or tracheostomy, is a surgical airway management procedure which consists of making an incision (cut) on the anterior aspect (front) of the neck and opening a direct airway through an incision in the trachea (windpipe).

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Transferred intent

Transferred intent (or transferred mens rea, or transferred malice, in English law) is a legal doctrine that holds that, when the intention to harm one individual inadvertently causes a second person to be hurt instead, the perpetrator is still held responsible.

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department.

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United States National Security Council

The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security, military, and foreign policy matters.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Večernji list

(also known as) is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Zagreb.

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Veterinarian

A veterinarian (vet) is a medical professional who practices veterinary medicine.

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Vice-President of the European Commission

A Vice-President of the European Commission is a member of the European Commission who leads the commission's work in particular focus areas in which multiple European Commissioners participate.

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Viktor Suvorov

Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun (Владимир Богданович Резун; Володи́мир Богда́нович Рєзу́н; born 20 April 1947), known by his pseudonym of Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов) is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects.

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Vil Mirzayanov

Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov (Вил Султанович Мирзаянов, Вил Солтан улы Мирзаҗанов; born 9 March 1935 in Starokangyshevo, Dyurtyulinsky District, Bashkortostan) is a Russian chemist of ethnic Tatar origin who now lives in the United States, best known for revealing secret chemical weapons experimentation in Russia.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.

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Vladivostok

Vladivostok (Владивосток) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia.

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Vremya

Vremya (Вре́мя, lit. "Time") is the main evening newscast in Russia, airing on Channel One Russia (Russian: Первый канал, Pervy kanal) and previously on Programme One of the Central Television of the USSR (CT USSR, Russian: Центральное телевидение СССР, ЦТ СССР).

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VTM (TV channel)

VTM or Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij (English: Flemish Television Company) is the main commercial television station in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking northern region of Belgium) and forms part of a network of channels owned by DPG Media (formerly Medialaan).

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire (abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Wiltshire Council

Wiltshire Council, known between 1889 and 2009 as Wiltshire County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Wiltshire in South West England.

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Wiltshire Police

Wiltshire Police, formerly known as Wiltshire Constabulary, is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Wiltshire (including the Borough of Swindon) in South West England.

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Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia.

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Zizzi

Zizzi Restaurants Limited, trading as Zizzi, is a chain of Italian-inspired restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouse explosions

In 2014, two explosions of ammunition depots occurred in Vrbětice, Vlachovice, in the Zlín District of the Czech Republic. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and 2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouse explosions are Russian intelligence operations.

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2018 Amesbury poisonings

On 30 June 2018, in Amesbury, two British nationals, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire, England. Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and 2018 Amesbury poisonings are 2010s in Wiltshire, crime in Wiltshire, Forensic toxicology and Novichok agents.

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2018 FIFA World Cup

The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national football teams organized by FIFA.

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2018 Russian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Russia on 18 March 2018.

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2020 New Year Honours

The 2020 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries.

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8th Engineer Brigade (United Kingdom)

8th Engineer Brigade (8 Eng Bde) is an engineering support formation of the British Army, which forms part of 1st (United Kingdom) Division.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal

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