Boris Johnson: Russia’s position in Skripal case is increasingly bizarre
21 March 2018 |
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UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has told DW's Zhanna Nemtsova why London believes that Russia is responsible for the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and what lesson Britain had learnt from the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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