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Soviet military intelligence officer convicted of spying for the United Kingdom
Craig Murray is a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who became a prominent critic of the official UK narrative about the 2018 Salisbury/ Skripal poisonings, publishing articles and blog posts th...
Craig Murray has long disputed the official UK account that Russia’s GRU poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury and that discarded novichok later killed Dawn Sturgess; he has argued alternativ...
The United Kingdom was directly involved in the discovery, development and research of several major nerve agents in the mid-20th century — most notably the V‑series agent VX, which was invented in Br...
Porton Down publicly stated that its scientists identified the Salisbury toxicant as a Novichok‑type, military‑grade nerve agent, but also said they had not been able to determine the precise source o...
British investigators and Western governments have pointed to two Russian nationals they say used a Novichok nerve agent on Sergei and Yulia Skripal, supported by CCTV, travel and criminal charges tha...
Craig Murray has publicly called the official account of the 2018 Salisbury Novichok attack a “hoax,” arguing the Skripals have not been seen publicly since 2018, that official forensic and witness ac...
Journalists who questioned elements of the Skripal–Sturgess narrative faced reputational, legal and political fallout in a broader context where press freedom is contested; examples of direct legal re...
Several mainstream British and international outlets report that the Dawn Sturgess inquiry concluded President Vladimir Putin bore “moral responsibility” for the Novichok poisonings tied to the Skripa...