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Two Russians suspected of attempting to murder the Skripals named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/s…

Police said the two men were travelling on authentic Russian passports and arrived in the UK on an Aeroflot flight days before the attack. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was enough evidence to charge them.

Poisoned Ex-Russian Spy Sergei Skripal was allegedly a source for Christopher Steele and Spanish authorities.

Poisoned Ex-Russian Spy Alexander Litvinenko's UK Intelligence handler was allegedly Christopher Steele.
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In 2008, Semyon Korobeinikov "lost his footing" and somehow fell to his death. A year later, Korobeinikov was named as the purchaser of Universal Savings Bank, a dubious financial institution that was a way-station for stolen Russian money. 
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"It was part of a government ruse to exonerate the true owner, an ex-convict called Dmitry Klyuev, a reputed mob boss implicated in a series of massive tax frauds that cost Russian citizens $1 billion."

Magnitsky Lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov Thrown From Window Was a Witness for the U.S. Government
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In 2012, Alexander Perepilichny, a former member of the Klyuev Group, dropped dead while jogging in his adoptive home of Surrey, England. At the time of his death, Perepilichny had been helping the Swiss government locate and freeze chunks of the missing $230 million

Detectives investigating the murder of Nikolai Glushkov believe he was previously the target of a poisoning attempt carried out by two mysterious men from Moscow who visited him in a Bristol hotel room theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/s…

Russian hitmen spent weeks in Geneva before nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal

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"Against this backdrop Perepilichnyy received increasingly ominous messages from Moscow, allegedly delivered by Pavlov. The two men met on at least two occasions including at Heathrow airport terminal five and in Geneva." 
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"Klyuev, Olga Stepanova, the head of Moscow Tax Office 28, and Stepanova’s husband, all took a vacation together in Dubai whence they traveled to Geneva, where the Stepanovs held secret bank accounts with Credit Suisse."
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Putin says Russia has identified suspects behind Skripal novichok poisoning, denies GRU involvement
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‘First it was his vision, then his speech, and then his legs’: Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov is hospitalized in critical condition and friends fear he was poisoned
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The day before Putin’s first presidentisl election was when the FSB, which Putin had commanded, leaked the identity of an MI6 officer who was a prodigious recruiter of Russian spies, including Skripal.

Sergei Skripal Was a Little Fish. He Had a Big Enemy
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Russian television channel RT to air interview with Skripal suspects, editor says ft.com/content/e90ba0…

Salisbury novichok suspects say they were only visiting cathedral. British officials say Russian TV interview with men about Skripal poisoning is risible.

RT mocks the west with interview of Skripal poisoning suspects theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/s…

When a suspected hit man for Russian intelligence arrived in Florida about four years ago, F.B.I. surveillance teams were alarmed.

U.S. Spies Rush to Protect Defectors After Skripal Poisoning nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/…

Reports in Switzerland and the Netherlands say two (other) Russian spies were arrested in the spring while allegedly on their way to a laboratory testing novichok samples from Salisbury
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"at least one man’s passport files contain various “top-secret” markings, which [...] are typically reserved for members of secret services or top state operatives."

Skripal Poisoning Suspect’s Passport Data Shows Link to Security Services
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Russian documents confirm "the two men were registered in the central Russian resident database under the names" and were issued internal passports "in 2009. However, no records exist for these two personas prior to 2009."

The other Skripal assassin's passport file also looks like that of a GRU intelligence agent, with a marking "Do not make public" and a defense ministry phone number via @bellingcat t.me/wwwproektmedia…

Badri Shengelia, a key witness in Russian mafia bribery case that took down several senior officials, shot dead
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Skripal Suspects Confirmed as GRU Operatives: Prior European Operations Disclosed via @bellingcat bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

The passport data on the suspected Salisbury attackers @bellingcat dug up link to whole web of likely spies linked to the GRU. meduza.io/en/feature/201…

The FSB is investigating the leak of Petrov and Boshirov's passport data, and plans to arrest any Interior Ministry staff who allegedly sold it to @bellingcat, further confirming that the information is genuine.
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Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, a highly decorated GRU officer bestowed with Russia’s highest state award, Hero of the Russian Federation. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

Col Chepiga served three tours in Chechnya in the brutal second Chechen war. The special forces brigade in which Anatoliy Chepiga served carried out secret missions in Ukraine for which it is believed he was awarded Russia’s highest honor.
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Released from hospital, Peter Verzilov (@gruppa_voina) spoke to @kolpakov and said he believes he was poisoned over an investigation involving Russian mercenary group Wagner buzzfeednews.com/article/ivanko…

“It’s true. He’s our guy,” said Alla, who described herself as a onetime family friend

In Russia’s Far East, villagers recognize Anatoly Chepiga washingtonpost.com/world/europe/i…

Skripal suspect and GRU agent Chepiga/Boshirov may have earned his 'Hero of Russia' medal by helping to evacuate disgraced former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from Crimea to Russia in Feb. 2014, says investigative journalist Sergei Kanev. en.hromadske.ua/posts/skripal-…

Kanev fled Russia just days ago, fearing for his life for his work on the Salisbury exposé rferl.org/a/29516628.html

Yanukovich's former bodyguard wrote to Court today asking to be interrogated in relation to Chepiga's role.

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1047230305805983746

“He was considered blatnoy.” Chepiga’s former fellow officers tell story of his career advancement
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#SkripalSuspects #SkripalCase

After regaining consciousness, Skripal did not initially believe the Kremlin was involved in his poisoning. A new book details how Skripal used his wife and daughter to pass classified information to MI6. His wife and son previously died mysteriously. amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/o…

"they parked in a rental car outside the OPCW, with specialist technical equipment in the back of the vehicle designed to hack into the watchdog’s network."

The GRU agents caught 'hacking' into global chemical weapons watchdog investigating Salisbury
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The IDs of the GRU agents were also revealed

U.S. Charges Russian GRU Officers with International Hacking and Related Influence and Disinformation Operations justice.gov/opa/pr/us-char…

The address the car was registered to coincides with the address of military unit 26165. Bellingcat was able to produce a list of 305 individuals who operated cars registered to the same address

Car Registrations May Point to Massive GRU Security Breach bellingcat.com/news/2018/10/0…

"Earlier this year, Karapetyan lashed out at Britain in the aftermath of the Novichok attack against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal."

The wreckage of a helicopter believed to have been carrying Karapetyan was found near the village of Vonyshevo.

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Saak Karapetyan died in the mysterious helicopter crash just hours before the four GRU spies were outed .

The pilot of the crashed helicopter, Stanislav Mikhnov, was shot dead with two shots in the back. The pilot was shot before the helicopter crashed.
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Bellingcat and The Insider publishes the identity of the second Skripal suspect, Dr. Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin, a trained military doctor in the employ of the GRU
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"In the period 2011-2018, Alexander Mishkin traveled extensively under his new identity. Bellingcat has identified multiple trips to Ukraine and to the self-declared Transnistrian Republic, the last of which as late as during the Maidan events in Kyiv in December 2013."

Andrei Kozlov, the first deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank was assassinated after uncovering a $200 billion dirty money scandal. thebea.st/2PqviP8 thedailybeast.com/russian-whistl…

Kozlov is the third dead Russian who can be linked to the Danske scandal after Alexander Perepilichnyy, whose company used the bank’s Estonia branch, died in suspicious circumstances in Britain.

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The Russian government has accused the Magomedov brothers of being involved in Kozlov's death.

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In 2007, Mishkin was registered as living at 12 Academic Lebedev Street in St Petersburg. According to Google Maps, the building is next to the Military Medical Academy. People in Loyga said Mishkin was also issued a Hero of Russia medal.
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“Virtually all Soviet military attaches belong to the GRU" “as do a large number of the Soviet citizens staffing Aeroflot offices abroad.” Nikolai Glushkov, Berezovsky associate & former deputy director at Aeroflot, was found dead in March.
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Colonel Yevgenia Shishkina, a top Russian investigator involved in serious economic crimes and corruption cases, was shot in the neck on October 10th when she was leaving her apartment block in the town of Arkhangelskoye.
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Nikolay Glushkov, Aeroflot former deputy director, wanted to tell about company’s links with FSB in his dying hours
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Russian spy agency GRU appears to reveal details of operatives' children in latest blunder

Spy agencies reportedly turned children into centurions in crude attempt to disguise their identity independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

On June 23rd, 2013, Edward @Snowden landed in Moscow via Aeroflot. themoscowtimes.com/news/snowden-a…

Since 2004, ex-KGB officer Viktor Ivanov has headed the board of directors of Almaz-Antei, Russia's main producer of air-defence rockets, and of Aeroflot, the national airline. economist.com/briefing/2007/…

For years, Alexander Lebedev was a spy. He was posted to London in the 1980s as an intelligence agent for the KGB. Lebedev, chairman of the National Reserve Bank and a big stakeholder in Aeroflot, sold his Aeroflot shares in 2010. articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/10/wo…

Lebedev became a British citizen (with dual nationality) in 2010. Lebedev Holdings Ltd owns the London Evening Standard, The Independent and the TV channel, London Live. His father was in the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, where he worked until 1992. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander…