Last week it was widely reported that a former Soviet and Russian military intelligence officer, Sergey Skripal —
who had been working for MI6 since 1995 and had been convicted in
Russia of high treason in 2006 before being released to the UK as part
of the 2010 US-Russia spy swap —
was found unconscious with his daughter on a public bench near a
shopping center in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. In Britain, the media and eccentric foreign minister
were swift to blame Russian intelligence services of attempting to
assassinate Skripal, who is currently still in coma in Salisbury
District Hospital. In the past week the hysteria of the British press
has escalated to the point of forcing PM Theresa May to issue a
ridiculous statement on the matter last Thursday.
