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NICK WRIGHT examines some of the questions and motives which linger over the poisoning last week of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal

IT is entirely possible that the substance that felled the MI6 agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter originated not just eight miles away in Britain’s chemical and biological production facility at Porton Down but in some comparable facility in either the Russian Federation or one of the former Soviet republics.

It is also entirely possible that some element in the corrupt klepto-capitalist ruling elite of the Russian state, either with official sanction or without, is responsible for the outrage.

Decades have passed since the counter-revolution in which the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the socialist basis of its economy was dismantled. 

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