Sergei Skripal


 * ''See also Poisoning of Sergei Skripal

Who is Sergei Skripal?

 * Wikipedia: Sergei Skripal (After arrest (Dec. 2004) and sentencing 2006; after spy exchange in 2010)
 * 'FSB names alleged MI6 recruiter' -RT, 15 August, 2007
 * Salisbury, scratchcards and sausage: the quiet life of Sergei Skripal - The Guardian, March 6, 2018
 * ''Quite why the Skripals arrived in Salisbury is not clear. It may be that he liked the idea of the quiet country life. But Salisbury and the surrounding areas are very much army territory and that may have helped him feel more secure.
 * SPY GAMES Russian spy Sergei Skripal was MI6 double agent codenamed ‘Forthwith’ who sold Moscow’s secrets for years - The Sun, March 10, 2018
 * Who was Russian double agent Sergei Skripal? - Adam Smith, Metro, March 10, 2018
 * In Britain, the Skripals were promised dementia(Rusvesna); Russian agent may have limited mental capacity after nerve attack (Reuters), March 22-23, 2018
 * Blood drawn for tests, by court order
 * The court's decision says that an unnamed doctor who treats Skripals reported that they are under powerful sedatives (typical for medical-induced coma) and are unable to communicate, and so it is not yet possible to assess when and to what extent they will be able to restore mental abilities.
 * ''“The precise effect of their exposure on their long term health remains unclear, albeit medical tests indicate that their mental capacity might be compromised to an unknown and so far unascertained degree,” Judge David Williams said in his ruling.
 * Poisoned former Russian double agent wrote to Putin for pardon, friend says, Salisbury Journal, March 24, 2018 (archived)
 * According to [Vladimir] Timoshkov, his friend [interviewed by the BBC in Russia], who he had known since school, did not see himself as a traitor as he had sworn an oath to the Soviet Union. "Many people shunned him. His classmates felt he had betrayed the Motherland," he said. "In 2012 he called me. We spoke for about half an hour. He called me from London. He denied he was a traitor... (he told me) he wrote to Vladimir Putin asking to be fully pardoned and to be allowed to visit Russia. His mother, brother and other relatives were (in Russia)." 


 * Skripal' is Ukrainian for violin player; the Russian for that is скрипач (Skripach). He was born in Kaliningrad, Russia according to English Wikipedia, and in Kiev, Ukraine according to Russian Wikipedia and Life.ru, and had a career in Russia. It is said that his self-described allegiance is 'Soviet'.
 * Peskov denied reports about the request of Skripal to return to Russia - RIA, March 25, 2018
 * It was earlier reported that Skripal wrote to Putin asking for full forgiveness and return to Russia. (but it was not confirmed by Peskov)
 * (Sergey) Skripal's (former) colleague on who has poisoned the traitor -Vladimir Koshelev interview with "Tsargrad", youtube 3 April, 2018
 * ...he is double traitor, not double agent (8:50)
 * from Voronezh region (father line), mother was a head of local council in Kaliningrad region. He graduated from Kaliningrad engineering school (sapper), then Kuibyshev academy, and military-diplomatic academy (aka academy of the Soviet army) (6:00). Professional sapper, (allegedly) with experience of working with chemical ammunitions. Founded a company involved in (commercial) de-mining.
 * had diabetes (9:20)
 * Russian spy poisoning: Sergei Skripal 'improving rapidly' -BBC, April 6, 2018
 * Sergei Skripal Released From Hospital After Poisoning - NHS England Sputnik May 18, 2018
 * NHS England statement
 * In the absence of any evidence and an opportunity to meet Sergei and Julia Skripal in person and verify their condition, we will consider these actions of the British authorities as forcible detention or abduction of two Russian citizens. Russian Embassy to the UK, May 18, 2018


 * After being released from the hospital, the former Russian spy is now in the hands of the British intelligence services. Frank Sellars The Duran 18th May, 2018
 * Ex-Spy Skripal's Mother Asks UK on Russian TV to Let Her Talk to Son Sputnik 22 May, 2018
 * ('Pust govoriat', Russian TV 1, 21 May, 2018, at around 44:00 time stamp. Mother's name is Evgenia and was mentioned earlier in the British press. She lives in the same appartment as Victoria Skripal).
 * 'I wanted a life outside Russia': Sergei Skripal tells how he was turned by MI6 into sharing his secrets before being snatched by Putin's thugs in a stunning interview given a year before Salisbury Mark Urban for the Daily Mail, September 28, 2018
 * Putin's answers, in particular on Skripal, made at a Russian energy forum (moderated by Ryan Chilcote, PBS)- Rus., Eng. (to follow), 3 October, 2018

Connection to Pablo Miller and Christopher Steele

 * A hundred grand and hundreds of betrayed agents What was former GRU Colonel Sergey Skripal's treason against Russia? - Meduza, March 6, 2018
 * Police officer in hospital after Russian spy poison plot is named - Daily Mail, March 8, 2018
 * ''Was poisoning in retaliation to Trump 'dirty dossier'? Kremlin double agent 'was close to consultant employed by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele'
 * Poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal was close to consultant who was linked to the Trump dossier - The Telegraph, March 7, 2018 (mirror)
 * ''The Telegraph understands that Col Skripal moved to Salisbury in 2010 in a spy swap and became close to a security consultant employed by Christopher Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier. The British security consultant, according to a LinkedIn social network account that was removed from the internet in the past few days, is also based in Salisbury. On the same LinkedIn account, the man listed consultancy work with Orbis Business Intelligence, according to reports. Orbis is run by Mr Steele, a former MI6 agent, who compiled the notorious dossier on President Trump that detailed his allegedly corrupt dealings with Vladimir Putin.
 * Poisoned Russian Spy Linked To Christopher Steele - ZeroHedge, March 9, 2018
 * ''If, as The Telegraph posits, Skripal assisted Steele in compiling the dossier - which notably relies on senior Russian officials, despite Steele never having traveled to Moscow - according to testimony by Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, it could explain the motive behind the assassination attempt in Salisbury town centre.
 * A LinkedIn bio reportedly connects Sergei Skripal, Donald Trump and Christopher Steele - Tim Fernholz, Quartz, March 8, 2018
 * What You Are NOT being Told About Russian Spy Sergei Skripal - TruePublica, March 8, 2018
 * Hospitalized Russian spy linked to Russia-UK spy wars - CNN, March 9, 2018
 * ''What connects Salisbury to the spy wars of the mid-2000s? A man named Pablo Miller also has an address in Salisbury, according to his LinkedIn account.
 * Skripal: A Russian web or a RUSI web? - Alex Thomson, UK Column, March 12, 2018
 * Note: The author is not Alex Thomson of Channel 4 News but a former GCHQ officer. See this video.
 * And he got more drama than all Bond movies combined. P-tin teaching German in UK for 'C'? Dzhokar Dudaev owned by MI56? Dramatic silence for the ending? Then, Shakespeare may be a bit overrated. --Resup (talk) 23:04, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sir John Scarlett mentioned in the article is the former Chief of MI6 and the curent vice-chairman of RUSI.
 * Poisoned Russian Spy Was About To Prove MI6 Fabricated Trump Dossier - Your News Wire, March 17, 2018
 * A reprint of a hoax article by Sorcha Faal, with better formatting.
 * Probable Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning - Clive Ponting via Craig Murray, April 28, 2018
 * Where They Tell You Not To Look, Craig Murray, April 30, 2018
 * UK media told to conceal connections between Sergei Skripal and MI6 Thomas Scripps WSWS 2 May, 2018
 * Spinwatch can reveal that the Skripal affair has resulted in the issuing of not one but two 'D-Notices' to the British media, which are marked private and confidential. We can also disclose the contents of both notices, which have been obtained from a reliable source. David Millar Spinwatch 8 May,2018

Connection to Malta

 * ''See also Cambridge Analytica


 * Russian spy poisoned in London was Malta embassy attaché in 1980s - Paul Cocks, Malta Today, March 7, 2018
 * Russian whistleblower – and Caruana contact – Maria Efimova handed herself in to Greek police on hearing of Skripal attack, in spite of warrants for her arrest and risk of extradition 'Skwawkbox'' April 6, 2018
 * Egrant Whistleblower Turns Herself In To Greek Police ‘Amid Fears Of Getting Dragged Into UK-Russia Nerve Agent Case' Tim Diacono Lovin Malta
 * British MP highlights Caruana Galizia murder investigation as The Spectator links Henley & Partners to Cambridge Analytica Press Association March 27, 2018
 * British MP links Henley and Partners to Cambridge Analytica Jurgen Balzan The Shift


 * SCL/Cambridge Analytica shareholder decorated by Joseph Muscat’s government Manuel Delia, March 29, 2018

Joseph Mifsud/Russiagate connections?

 * Mifsud. The “professor” in the Papadopoulos – Manafort revelations. Jon Worth, Oct 31, 2017 - Extensive resource on Mifsud's connections


 * Looking for Joseph (Mifsud) Manuel Delia, March 2, 2018


 * Julian Assange Observations on the Role of the UK in the 2016 US Presidential Election Julian Assange, March 23, 2018 (Page down.)
 * There is something very odd about the Joseph Mifsud story and the role of the UK in the 2016 US presidential election:(thread) Defend Assange Campaign Twitter March 2018


 * All Russiagate Roads Lead To London As Evidence Emerges Of Joseph Mifsud’s Links To UK Intelligence Elizabeth Vos Disobedient Media April 4, 2018


 * BORIS THE SPIDER: MI5, Claire Smith, Joseph Mifsud, NATO, & blaming Vladimir Putin for the Skripal poisoning….. John Ward The Slog April 6, 2017


 * Spooks Spooking Themselves Daniel Lazare Consortium News May 31, 2018


 * Russiagate Part Two: Malta
 * So what we’ve learned in the past few days is that Bill Browder and Thor Halvorssen have ties to former M16 spies including Pablo Miller who allegedly recruited Sergei Skripal and now works for Christopher Steele, the guy who wrote the Trump dossier. Browder also has close ties to Legatum whose staff has ties to Malta not only through the Atlantic Council but as we’ll see, through Henley & Partners’ passport program.


 * Russiagate Part 1 Llama, jimmyslamma.com


 * Despite government censorship, a far bigger story behind the Skripal poisoning is emerging Tom Coburg The Canary June 1, 2018


 * Maltese Professor Who Lured Papadopoulos Tied To Soros' Open Society Foundation Tyler Durden ZeroHedge June 11, 2018


 * New Light on the Mueller Investigation richq11, Steemit August 25, 2018

Dealings after the swap
See also disinformation: talk
 * Spook Soup - Ronald Thomas West, March 10, 2018
 * Respekt: Skripal was secretly in Prague in 2012 Prague Monitor May 14, 2018
 * Respekt: Agent Skripal byl v Praze (in 2012) -Respekt (Czech), translation, 12/13 May, 2018
 * Skripal Visited Estonia in 2016 to Meet With Local Intelligence - Reports Sputnik May 14, 2018
 * Focus Magazine Article (German) September 28, 2019
 * Estonia Denies Reports on Skripal Contribution to Exposing Spies in 2016 Sputnik September 28, 2018
 * Sergei Skripal Worked for Four Different NATO Intel Agencies – Reports Sputnik September 29, 2018
 * Salisbury Novichok victim Sergei Skripal targeted by assassins ‘as he was still active spy for FOUR intelligence agencies’ - The Sun, September 29, 2018
 * ''Skripal was thought to be still an agent as he fought for life alongside poisoned daughter Yulia, 33, on a visit to see her father.
 * ''He had spoken of "business meetings" in Poland, and met once a month with a "well spoken Englishman in a tweed suit" at the Cote Brasserie in Salisbury.
 * ''The 'tweed man' is believed to have been his MI6 'handler' - who cannot be identified for his own safety - but who allegedly did work with a UK security consultancy behind a dossier on US President Donald Trump's dealings with Russia.

'Regularly meeting officers at the Russian Embassy'?

 * Sergei Skripal: Former spy was in 'regular contact with Russian embassy', ex-Kremlin officer claims - The Independent, March 7, 2018
 * Vitaly Morozov, who knows Skripal', tells that Skripal' regularly met with officers at the Russian Embassy, finds it very strange; video -MSN, March 8, 2018; text-Mirror, March 7, 2018
 * “If you have a military intelligence officer working in the Russian diplomatic service, living after retirement in the UK, working in cyber-security and every month going to the embassy to meet military intelligence officers - for me being political refugee, it is either a certain danger or frankly speaking, I thought that this contact might not be very good for me because it can bring some questions from British officials.” (Noted: detail on meeting officers is unusual and outside a normal conversation; Morozov does not explain how this detail came about; if Skripal' volunteered to provide this detail, it would be quite natural to wish to stay away from such person).
 * Fellow Russian exile claims poisoned spy Sergei Skripal was NOT retired and was still working with military intelligence - Mirror, March 7, 2018
 * The Russian Embassy told the programme: “We are not aware of any contacts between Sergei Skripal and any of the Embassy staff. "As we have previously said, Mr Skripal was not on the consular register.” (Noted: whether or not he was on register is irrelevant).

Yulia Skripal

 * ''See also Yulia Skripal audio


 * Russian spy: Yulia Skripal 'conscious and talking' - BBC, March 29, 2018
 * YULIA SKRIPAL IS NOT ALLOWED TO TELEPHONE HER GRANDMOTHER - John Helmer, Dances with Bears, April 1, 2018
 * Sergei Skripal's daughter was poisoned 'just days after gaining access to a £150,000 secret bank account' - Mirror, April 2, 2018
 * Salisbury poisoning victim Yulia Skripal breaks silence from hospital claiming "Sergei is fine" and she'll soon be discharged, claims Russian state TV - Mirror, April 5, 2018
 * Sergei and Yulia Skripal will be offered new identities and a new life in America in an attempt to protect them from further murder attempts. The Times April 8, 2018
 * Blanshard reported that both Skripals remained under her supervision in the hospital. As of Friday afternoon, they had not left for the US, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, as the Rupert Murdoch media began reporting on Saturday evening.That report cited “a senior Whitehall figure” for the claim that “intelligence officials at MI6 have had discussions with their counterparts in the CIA about resettling the victims of the Salisbury poisoning. ‘They will be offered new identities’…. ‘There’s a preference for them to be resettled in a five-eyes nation [US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand] because their case would have huge security implications’.” Dances with Bears April 8th, 2018
 * Yulia Skripal discharged from hospital after Salisbury attack, reports say, ''The Guardian, April 10, 2018
 * A statement by the Hospital to the media says that she was discharged and wants to have her privacy respected.
 * Updates on the Salisbury incident - NHS England, April 10, 2018
 * 'I will say that nerve agents work by attaching themselves to a particular enzyme in the body which then stops the nerves from working properly. This results in symptoms such as sickness, hallucinations and confusion'. -- Christine Blanschard


 * Statement issued on behalf of Yulia Skripal by the Scotland Yard, April 11, 2018
 * Russian consulate in London expressed doubt that the statement is genuinely by Yulia. 'The text is composed to support the British position', and 'to exclude contacts with the outside world'. 'None of quoted in press friends and family confirms contacts with Yulia' (Rus.), (Eng). (Noted: in Russia, important statements by non-officials often appear as videos, in part to be sure that a person quoted indeed said it and is not misquoted or altogether misrepresented).
 * EXC: Yulia Skripal fears she was betrayed by fiancé in poison attack - Daily Mail, April 11, 2018
 * Noted: the claim is unsourced. There have been no confirmed contacts of Yulia with the outside world; with the phone call with Victoria Skripal the closest to the confirmed category. But contact with Victoria was not continued.
 * Yulia Skripal Is Plainly Under Duress - Craig Murray, April 11, 2018
 * ''The most probable explanation is that Yulia persuaded somebody else in the hospital to lend her a phone, without British officials realising. That would explain why the first instinct of the British state and its lackey media was to doubt the authenticity of the call. It would explain why she was able to contradict the official narrative on their health, and why she couldn’t get a return call.


 * 'The mysterious letter of Julia Skripal puzzled Russian diplomats' (i.e. the Scotland Yard-issued letter) -ntv.ru, April 12, 2018
 * This letter does not sound like a letter from a Russian person translated into English. (True, significance uncertain).
 * MET DECLINES TO PROVIDE EVEN BASIC UPDATE ON SKRIPALS Skawkbox 11 May, 2018
 * See also Analysis of official statements on the talk page for Russian Embassy responses.
 * Russia has on numerous occasions accused the UK of violating consular conventions as regards access to the Russian nationals Sergei and Yulia Skripal


 * Yulia makes public statement Telegraph 23, May, 2018 Appears at undisclosed location. Yulia's Hand written statement
 * Talking from an undisclosed location in the capital, the Russian appeared to have a scar on her neck, consistent with that of a patient who has had to have a tracheostomy.
 * This may be thyroid surgery scar. It is usually wider than tracheostomy scar.
 * Exclusive - Yulia Skripal: Attempted assassination turned my world upside down -Reuters, 23, May, 2018, with video, handwritten text in Eng. and Rus., and photos.
 * Skripal spoke in Russian and supplied a statement that she said she had written herself in both Russian and English. She signed both documents after making her statement. She declined to answer questions after speaking to camera.
 * Noted: the text and oral statement are very close. When making her statement, there is an impression that it was memorized (or read from teleprompter?) Lots of up and down eye movement. Also noted: no blame for the attack assigned; no indication given of having memory of the attack itself; treatment is described invasive and painful, followed by thanks to the hospital staff; desire to return to Russia stated, followed by rejection of consular assistance, at this time. Physical: scar; hair colored; makeup. --Resup (talk) 18:04, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Viktoria Skripal, Russian consulate reaction suggests that the text was first written in English. It is very clear that the text is Western, English in style and presentation, but I am not entirely clear in which order things originated. Noted: Russian text is written faster (less calligraphic), and has the following alterations: I want to help (ie to the father; literally identical to English) is changed to intend to (be) help(ing) (намерена помогать); spoken presentation has 'I want to help' version; after his discharge from the hospital till his full recovery (same as spoken here). Some vocabulary are English calques, 'I want to return to my country ', 'please respect our privacy', all that thanking-and-striking stuff,  'something I have done regularly in the past' follows info on arrival, etc; but it is unclear how much it deviates in substances from what she was up to say --Resup (talk) 01:18, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Russian Embassy response Obviously, Yulia was reading a pre-written text. More than that, judging by quite a few elements, the text was a translation from English and had been initially written by a native English-speaker. The handwritten letters signed by Yulia in Russian and English confirm this impression.
 * Craig Murray blog Of the Russian Embassy she said very simply “I am not ready, I do not want their help”. Strangely this is again translated in the Reuters subtitles by the strangulated officialese of “I do not wish to avail myself of their services”, as originally stated in the unnatural Metropolitan Police statement issued on her behalf weeks ago. “I do not wish to avail myself of their services” is simply not a translation of what she says in Russian and totally misses the “I am not ready” opening phrase of that sentence. My conclusion is that Yulia’s statement was written by a British official and then translated to Russian for her to speak, rather than the other way round. Also that rather than translate what she said in Russian themselves for the subtitles, Reuters have subtitled using a British government script they have been given.
 * In Russian, she says (literally) ....I am grateful to the Russian Embassy for the help offered, but at this moment I am not ready and do not want to make-use-of (воспользоваться) it  --Resup (talk) 09:17, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * See also: talk
 * BBC clip of statement on Youtube
 * Video commentary-RT.
 * Юлия Скрипаль: я надеюсь однажды вернуться в Россию -BBC Russian service, 23 May 2018
 * Afshin Rattansi Twitter
 * Skripal statement delivered in an unknown location and only to the Reuters Agency run by https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/board-of-directors.html … indirectly owned by The Woodbridge Company of Ontario.
 * Эксклюзив «КП»: Виктория Скрипаль рассказала, что в видеообращении сестра произносила не свой текст -Komsomolskaya Pravda, 24 May, 2018
 * Victoria Skripal believes that Yulia has read the text during her spoken presentation, based on lots of up and down eye movements, 'a bit low for Yulia' speed, in-one-go uninterrupted delivery, lack of some typical of her 'parasite words'
 * Frank Sellars, The Duran It’s interesting to see Yulia up and about, walking around, with no observable discrepancies in her ability to move and function normally, as well as to pen a statement, which would seem to show that whichever hand she writes with, and therefore may have touched the door knob with, assuming that the toxin was absorbed via the skin, therefore coming into contact with the lethal dose of the novichok class nerve agent, is not suffering serious nerve damage, given the precision and control with which she apparently is able to coordinate.
 * YULIA SKRIPAL’S POSTSCRIPT – WHAT DID SHE WRITE, AND WHAT DIDN’T SHE SAY IN THE BRITISH GARDEN EVENT, PLUS THE NEUROLOGY EVIDENCE John Helmer Dances with bears May 27, 2018
 * “no one speaks for me, or for my father, but ourselves”. In Russian what she said was: “nobody should or can speak for me and my father, except ourselves.” (noted: the difference here appears to do with easiness of flow in Russian)
 *  In English she was reported as saying: “Finally, I would like to again thank everyone involved in my continued care.” In Russian she said she wanted to thank “all the people who gave me support and help in this difficult period of my life.” In that last sentence Yulia expanded the geography of her gratitude to include British, Russians, and the world of support which her case has generated. (Noted: this may be either easiness of flow or genuinely different. There are words for care different from support, but those words are like nursing or medical care, highlighting her incapacity and not as elegant as support, which has a broader range. It is unclear whom she thanks and whether it involves anybody outside UK; apart from one brief and reserved call to Victoria, there is no other known outside contacts --Resup (talk) 11:27, 28 May 2018 (UTC) )
 * LONDON POLICE COMMISSIONER MAKES NEW CLAIM TO KEEP YULIA SKRIPAL INCOMMUNICADO, John Helmer, May 29, 2018
 * Yulia Skripal: (cut) if this is OK for you (cut) at 1:09 of the top video here --Resup (talk) 11:30, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Dick and her role in the killing of John Charles de Menezes The Herald 5th June 2017
 * Also Common purpose

July, 2018

 * 'A new angle for the Skripal case: Julia was visited by a friend in Britain' -''Moslovskii Komsomolets' (a tabloid), 4 July, 2018. A phone call from Yulia to a lady builder Diana repairing her MOscow flat allegedly occurred on 22 May, one day before Reuters published the first ever interview with Yulia. Yulia allegedly told that she is doing fine and will soon return.
 * Victoria Skripal told about well-being of her cousin Julia, telling that judged by the tone she is doing great, and not providing other details at this point -TASS, 4 July, 2018
 * Zakhraova: British special services control Yulia's phone calls -TASS, 5 July, 2018
 * Zakharova statement was made in 1TV program 'Let them talk'(Pust govoriat), published online 5 July, 2018  In that program, a short fragment of Yulia's phone call with Victoria was played at around 33:00, with Victoria present. Prior to playback, we are reminded that according to Yulia all her calls are recorded (by the British).
 * V: Yulia, we did not want to interfere in anything, me especially, all that I want is that you return home and live your own life
 * Y: Nobody is preventing this, you see, I can do it on any day. But now I am busy with my father and recovering myself. That's it. And I do not understand, why all those statements. The statement which I made... not the right tone, memorized-not memorized, why is this any of your business? Nobody prepared anything, of course.
 * V: I never told anything bad about you, anywhere and to anyone, about you or the father, let's start with this (=let's not forget this)
 * Y:The very fact that it was done publicly spoiled (had a bad impact on) our life here a lot
 * V:...and ours, too...
 * Y: I cannot now return to Russia because all of that was played out in those stupid talk shows. Why on Earth did you go there? Because you showed up there, I cannot return to Russia, only because of that.
 * Russian Embassy Press Officer’s reply to a media question concerning continuing isolation of Yulia Skripal, 27 July, 2018

January 2019

 * Sergei and Yulia Skripal could still be in UK and even be working for security service, experts claim Victoria Ward, The Daily Telegraph Januray 7, 2019
 * Niece of 'Novichok' victim questions reports about cousin’s contacts with Russian friends Tass January 8, 2019
 * The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday, citing UK security sources, that, contrary to earlier media reports, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are still staying on the territory of the United Kingdom after vanishing from the public eye in the wake of the Salisbury incident. The paper said the ex-spy and his daughter were allowed to communicate with their friends and relatives. According to the publication, Yulia maintains contact with her close friends in Russia, who do not reveal any information about her. Moreover, some of her British and Russian friends even visited her last summer.Viktoria Skripal, however, questioned those reports, saying that the Skripals have not even tried to establish contact with Sergei Skripal’s mother, who is aged 91 and "is in a desperate need of such a conversation." "She [Yulia Skripal] reportedly contacts her friends in Moscow, who allegedly have Scotland Yard’s trust. Well, I know only one such person - her friend Gulnara. I have no information on whether she contacted her or not, I can’t be certain about that, but it seems strange that she talks to her, but cannot phone her 91-year-old grandmother," Viktoria said.

Stepan Vikeev

 * Yulia Skripal's mystery partner 'goes into hiding' along with his mother - Daily Mail, April 21, 2018
 * (See comment to earlier similar Daily Mail article, April 11, 2018, above). Also, in the Scotland Yard statement, she is quoted saying I have access to friends and family; what's 'access'? 'Access' is not the same as contact. If she does have any actual contacts, why not to say so, explicitly and with details?
 * Stepan Vikeev is a Ph.D in economics, + part-time poet and video gamer. His mother is with a corporate security research and industrial organization 'Institute for modern problems in security' founded by 'Norilsk mining company named after Zevyagin'. Corporate security in general is the lowest in hierarchy and far away from state security or any special tools or substances. Stepan is said to be in the same structure, likely in his economics role. There is a quite notable flow of money through the company, around 2.8 mln USD in receivables yearly, with a comparable amount in expenses. But no evidence of villain use of those moneys, even less of such an exotic villainy. Disliking is one thing, but killing in a manner causing major international crisis is in quite another ballpark.
 * Mr Vikeev has not answered Ms Skripal’s calls since she was discharged from hospital and deleted all his social media accounts after the attack, for which the government has blamed Russia….. Alexander Mercouris The Duran April 24, 2018

Twitter?

 * archive, @SkripalJulia Just Julia, England, United Kingdom, Joined April 2018, 3 tweets, account deleted or inactive
 * https://twitter.com/SkripalJuIa/status/992367174202413056 JuIa SkripaI on Twitter: "Responding to Lavrow lies in media. Am I ... 4 May 2018 - What a foolish idea. First you wanted to kill me and now you come up with such nonsense? I'm safe and I will not tolerate your's lies. 4:35 AM ...
 * https://twitter.com/SkripalJulia/status/992367174202413056 JuIia SkripaI on Twitter: "Responding to Lavrow lies in media. Am I ...4 May 2018 - Am I kidnapped? What a foolish idea. First you wanted to kill me and now you come up with such nonsense? I'm safe and I will not tolerate ...
 * No clue really; observations: Lavrow ?(no reason for a w) your 's ? ('s is just incorrect) Father ? (no reason for capitalization in Rus). Too little to go by really, no certainty, in either way of interpreting this --Resup (talk) 23:26, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * One more twitting Yulia, in Russian, starting with thanks, turning to cries for help ....
 * 'Fresh heartache for family of Sergei Skripal who say they are being stalked by a Twitter troll claiming to be the poisoned ex-Russian spy's daughter' -Daily Mail, 2 May, 2018
 * 24 May, 2018. Hair color questioned by a user, compared to Reuters visuals (response given, that's how they look like at different lighting, did not satisfy the user)
 * Has 'Guardian Angel' who is a nurse located in Australia (+social media)

See also: (more on) cat names
 * Suspended, as of 8 June, 2018

Boris Karpichkov

 * KGB KILLER Cops identify ‘former KGB assassin ('Gordon'), 54, trained in martial arts and with law degree as prime suspect in Salisbury poisonings’ -The Sun, 21/22 April, 2018
 * The most wanted criminal of Latvia - counterintelligence Boris Karpichkov -kriminal.lv;, 2.8.2010
 * ''By the way, just the other day Karpichkov through the newspaper The Daily Mail accused the special services of the United Kingdom in the death of military expert David Kelly. For reference: David Kelly was engaged in exposing falsifications in the reports of the British government on the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In July 2003, he was found dead in a forest in Oxfordshire. The investigation concluded that death occurred as a result of suicide. However, Karpichkov is sure that they have got rid of the expert scientist for "reckless behavior." As a source of information about Kelly's murder, the ex-counter-intelligence called his former boss Peter Everett, who led the company Group Global Intelligence Services. In this firm worked former intelligence officers MI-5, who performed detective work on orders of private firms. Everett confirmed that he had met Karpichkov and talked to him about Kelly's death. But he categorically denies the fact that he knew anything about this crime. Currently, the Attorney General of Great Britain is studying the materials sent to him by Karpichkov. Most likely, Karpichkov hopes that with the help of this statement, made on July 25, he will not again be extradited to Latvia.
 * Mirror got 'Gordon''s censored portrait
 * Counter-terrorism police are reportedly trying to build a case against “persons of interest”.The breakthrough came after a search of flight manifests in and out of the UK yielded specific names in the hunt for the Skripals’ would-be assassins. Police have also drawn on extensive CCTV footage in Salisbury. The Mirror April 22, 2018

Ross Cassidy
Skripal's "best friend" Ross Cassidy "speaks for the first time", to the Daily Mail published on September 9, 2018.

Urban book
Four months after the incident, BBC reporter Mark Urban informed the public that he had intervieved Skripal several times during the summer of 2017 for a book about Russian Intelligence he was writing. As it turns out, Urban was an officer in the Royal Tank Regiment together with Pablo Miller, Skripals MI6 handler. When Craig Murray asked some straight-forward questions about this to Urban and the BBC, the former didn't answer at all and the latter pointed out that they are not obliged to answer these questions, and made a general statement which contained nothing at all about the connection to Miller, Steele and his dossier Murray had asked about.

Urban's book "THE SKRIPAL FILES - The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy" is published on October 2, 2018. (Readable online here)


 * Sergei Skripal Did Not Believe Moscow Poisoned Him, New Book Claims - Sputnik, October 2, 2018
 * Sergei Skripal initially did not believe Russia tried to kill him – book - Luke Harding, The Guardian, October 2, 2018.
 * ''When Skripal woke five weeks later from a coma, he faced some “difficult psychological adjustments” – not least the fact that he was at first reluctant to recognise he had been the target of a Kremlin “murder plot”.
 * ''Urban discovered that Skripal spent much of his day watching Russia’s Channel One, a pro-Kremlin state broadcaster. He adopted “the Kremlin line in many matters”, the journalist writes, “even while sitting in his MI6-purchased house”, especially over Moscow’s fraught relations with Ukraine.
 * ''Skripal, a former paratrooper, supported Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and referred disparagingly to Ukrainians as “simply sheep who needed a good shepherd”. Skripal also refused to believe Russian troops had entered eastern Ukraine covertly, saying that if they had, they would have quickly reached the capital, Kiev.


 * MI6 Will Be So Proud: Urban & Harding Continue The Ludicrous Skripal Narrative, Bay Kurley, Daily Shocker, October 2, 2018
 * Slam dunk on the discrepancies between what we already know from Ross Cassidy about Skripal before the event, and what Urban and The Guardian's chief clown Luke Harding want us to believe now.


 * Ex-MI5 Officer Sheds Light on 'Narrative' Behind Book on Skripal - Sputnik, October 5, 2018
 * EXCLUSIVE: Sputnik Gatecrashes Launch of Mark Urban's Book 'The Skripal Files' - Sputnik, October 5, 2018