It has now been over a week since former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury, poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.
With echoes of the Litvinenko murder in November 2006, deemed to be ‘probably’ the handiwork of Kremlin agents, the British government has been quick to apportion blame on Russia for the attempted hit.
Unsurprisingly, however, a very different narrative is being played out inside Russia.
What the officials say…
While President Vladimir Putin and his foreign secretary have straight-out denied Russin involvement, many officials have gone a step further.
Central to some responses is a theory that the attack was, in…
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