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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Defence lawyers for Oleg Pulatov, one of the four men charged by the Dutch government with murder in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, have told the court the prosecutors were acting illegally in the case they have presented so far. A lawyer for the 298 victims killed on board […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, the principal chemical warfare testing unit of the British Ministry of Defence, has acknowledged it was producing and testing the organophosphate nerve agent Novichok from 2014. This is four years before Sergei Skripal, the retired double agent for the UK’s Secret […]