Putin liquidates a government ‘restricted-access administrative entity’ in a town where British reporters think novichok may have been manufactured
Source: Meduza
Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order liquidating the government’s “restricted-access administrative entity” in Shikhany. In April, The Times reported that a laboratory in this town manufactured the novichok nerve agent allegedly used to poison Sergey Skripal and his daughter.
Mikhail Babich, the former head of Russia’s state commission on chemical weapons, promptly denied the story. “We know where all the bases that stored chemical weapons were, and Shikhany wasn’t one of them,” Babich said, clarifying that such weapons were stored elsewhere in Saratov “but not in Shikhany.”