In the latest chapter in the Salisbury Novichok saga the police have released a selection of images of two men they are naming as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. While there has been widespread speculation that the images are fake, doctored or otherwise not real pictures, this has involved a lot of embarrassing leaps to conclusions. However, there are some questions that so far I haven’t seen anyone asking.
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