| 03/24/2018 04:30 | Scientist who made Russian nerve agent reveals FULL HORROR of novichok (The Guardian)
Nerve agent was used in 1995 murder, claims former Soviet scientist - The Guardian |
| 03/23/2018 22:20 | Russian Nerve Agent Scientist Admits Selling Deadly Toxin to Chechen Mobsters ( Voice of America )
Leonid Rink, who worked in a Soviet-era chemical weapons facility near the Russian town of Saratov, admitted to investigators after the killing of a Russian banker in 1995 that he sold capsules of the deadly Novichok toxin to Chechen criminals based in Moscow. Chechen mobsters with ties to ... |
| 03/23/2018 10:30 | Incident: Saratov YK42 at Saratov on Mar 22nd 2018, rejected takeoff due to engine problem ( The Aviation Herald )
Following the crash of Saratov's AN-148 in Moscow, see Crash: Saratov A148 at Moscow on Feb 11th 2018, lost height after departure, pitot heatings off, Russia's Ministry of Transport had issued instruction to the Civil Aviation Authority to suspend all operations on all aircraft types operated by Saratov ... |
| 03/22/2018 16:15 | Policemen nearly killed by bang from laptop left by Saratov businessman murderers ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
A police officer and a Rosgvardiya employee got wounded late on March 21 in the Engels district of the Saratov region as they were carrying out their duties. Novosti Saratova (Saratov News) reported that the operatives headed to meet someone who was supposed to give them information on the ... |
| 03/21/2018 16:40 | Russian diplomats leave United Kingdom amid spy row ( Newburgh Gazette )
Rink told RIA he had worked at a Soviet chemicals weapons research facility in the town of Shikhany in Russia's Saratov Region for 27 years until the early 1990s. British Prime Minister Theresa May said the substance used in the attack had been a Novichok-class nerve agent developed in the Soviet ... |
| 03/20/2018 21:20 | Expelled Russian Diplomats Head Home As UK Mulls Furthur Poisoning Response ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
He said he had worked at a Soviet chemical-weapons research facility in the town of Shikhany, in Russia's Saratov region, for 27 years until the early 1990s. He said Novichok was not a single substance but a system of using chemical weapons, and that it had been called "Novichok-5" by the Soviet ... |
| 03/20/2018 21:20 | Soviet-era scientist says he helped create poison in UK spy attack row ( Reuters )
Rink told RIA he had worked at a Soviet chemicals weapons research facility in the town of Shikhany in Russia's Saratov Region for 27 years until the early 1990s. Novichok was not a single substance, he said, but a system of using chemical weapons and had been called 'Novichok-5' by the Soviet ... |
| 03/20/2018 14:25 | Tortured and terrorised by the state, this Russian Muslim now faces deportation ( Open Democracy )
I've written about Khasanov's case in detail before, indicating facts that suggest that the case against this 70-year-old man, who died in a Saratov prison in January 2017, was fabricated. The charge against Khasanov stated that he persuaded Bagdan Umarov, a resident of Ingushetia in Russia's North ... |
| 03/18/2018 20:25 | Kenyan terror suspect escapes police radar to join ISIS in Yemen ( The Standard )
He then went to study medicine at Saratov State Medical University in Russia from 2009 to 2015 and was employed as a medical intern at Malindi Sub-County Hospital for one year from April 2016. Shukri had earlier been arrested by the Anti-Terror Police in Malindi on August 28, 2016 following ... |
| 03/18/2018 06:25 | We may be witnessing the start of a new Cold War ( The Sunday Guardian )
Novichok was developed during the 1970s and 80s near the closed city of Shikhany, situated 130 kilometres from Saratov. The report of its existence was sent several years ago by Russia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). In the next few days, experts from OPCW will ... |
| 03/17/2018 23:25 | The Latest: Russia: West just angry over advances in Syria ( Waco Tribune-Herald )
FILE - In this Saturday, May 20, 2000 file photo, two Russian soldiers make a routine check of metal containers with toxic agents at a chemical weapons storage site in the town of Gorny, 124 miles (200 kms) south of the Volga River city of Saratov, Russia. Last year, Russia announced it fully completed ... |
| 03/16/2018 05:15 | UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning, Russia blames Ukraine instead ( Kyiv Post )
It refers to a group of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union â namely in the town of Shikhany in Saratov Oblast and Volgograd â in the 1970s and 1980s, to elude international restrictions on chemical weapons. Even though Russia claimed it had renounced the use and production of chemical ... |
| 03/14/2018 11:30 | Run of Deadly Air Crashes Shatters Calm of Uneventful 2017 ( Bloomberg )
11 jet crash that killed 65 passengers when their aircraft came down shortly after departing Moscow involved a Russian-built Antonov An-148, and was operated by little known Saratov Airlines. Prior to that, the last customer fatalities on a jet came in November 2016 when 73 died on an BAE Systems Plc ... |
| 03/14/2018 04:25 | Oleg Tabakov, beloved Russian actor and stage director, dies at 82 ( Brinkwire (press release) )
Famous Russian actor, stage director, and acting coach Oleg Tabakov has passed away in Moscow. Tabakov also ... After the news of Tabakov's death broke on Monday, citizens of his hometown of Saratov started laying wreaths to the monument of the cartoon character in the southern Russian city. |
| 03/14/2018 04:25 | Russian Security Services Say they Have Prevented Another Terror Attack ( HSToday )
Russian security services say they have prevented an attack planned by a terror cell using a hand grenade and an improvised explosive device in the ... The Russian Federal Security Service released a short statement on Sunday, which said that the terrorists were shot dead after they opened fire at ... |
| 03/13/2018 22:15 | Were these the first victims of nerve agent Novichok? Russian banker and secretary 'assassinated ... ( Mirror.co.uk )
The nerve agent used to poison a former Russian double agent in the UK was suspected in the murders of a top Moscow banker and his secretary over 20 ... laboratory under the control of the FSB in Shikhany, a âclosed townâ - which means outsiders including foreigners are banned - in Saratov region. |
| 03/13/2018 22:15 | 'Just a factory' - the Moscow weapons lab that made the Novichok nerve agent ( Telegraph.co.uk )
But this is Russia's premier chemical weapons lab, once at the forefront of the Soviet Union's Cold War weapons program and now believed to be the source of the Novichok nerve agent used to ... The institute has also has three field testing sites, one of them located in Shikhani in the Saratov region. |
| 03/13/2018 22:15 | The scientist who leaked Russia's Novichok 'conspiracy' ( Citizen )
Binary bombs had been developed since the 1970s and were tested at a military base used for chemical weapons in a town called Shikhany in Russia's southern Saratov region and also in Uzbekistan, Mirzayanov wrote. âLike hundreds of other scientists, I was participating in a conspiracy against the ... |
| 03/13/2018 21:35 | The scientist who leaked Russia's Novichok 'conspiracy' ( Bangkok Post )
Binary bombs had been developed since the 1970s and were tested at a military base used for chemical weapons in a town called Shikhany in Russia's southern Saratov region and also in Uzbekistan, Mirzayanov wrote. "Like hundreds of other scientists, I was participating in a conspiracy against the ... |
| 03/13/2018 20:25 | Ukraine fines Russian airlines for over $193 million ( 112 International (blog) )
The State Aviation Service of Ukraine since 2015 imposed over 193 million dollars of fines on more than 40 Russian airlines that flew to the annexed Crimea. This was ... Among the violators are Aeroflot, Ural Airlines, Saratov Airlines, UTair, Nordavia, Globus, Red Wings, Yamal, Siberia and others. |
