The poisoning of the former GRU officer Sergei Skripal made the whole of his family popular. The relatives of the ex-spy decided to turn this unexpected advertisement into political capital: Sergei's own niece, Victoria Skripal, gathered to run for the Yaroslavl Regional Duma. The bearer of the well-known surname nominated the regional branch of the party "Fair Russia". Voting in the elections to the regional parliament will be held on September 9, so that Skripal has two months to win the sympathy of voters. "Victoria Skripal led the territorial group number 10 in the elections to the Yaroslavl Regional Duma. She is a patriot of her country and she wants to help her region, she has known her for a long time in "Fair Russia", she applied for help, "the secretary of the bureau of the regional branch of the party Anatoly Kashirin told journalists.. According to the secretary, Skripal is "a man with an active lifestyle", reports URA. EN. "During the work on nominating candidates, we offered her, and she agreed with pleasure," added a representative of the "Socialist-Revolutionaries". From the most recent candidate for deputy comments have not yet followed. What legislative initiatives it intends to propose in the case of passage to the regional parliament is also unknown. Victoria Skripal 45 years old. She lives in Yaroslavl. In April of this year, about a month after the incident in Salisbury, the woman stated on television that she intended to go to the UK and take her cousin Julia (who was poisoned with her father) from the hospital and return with her to Russia. After poisoning relatives Viktoria Skripal contacted them and tried to get a British visa, but she was denied twice. In the first case, the British authorities considered her unemployed, and in the second - indicated an inadequate level of wages. A relative of poisoned Russians also informed journalists that the attempt on them was committed a few days after Yulia Skripal received access to a secret account in a bank where 150 thousand. pounds sterling, derived from the sale of British real estate owned by Sergei Skripal and his ex-wife Natalia. According to Victoria Skripal, Sergei and Julia have a desire to return to their homeland. If Moscow were involved in the poisoning of loved ones, such an intention would hardly have arisen,. According to her, Sergei Skripal is no longer of value to law enforcement agencies. "He is a simple and quiet pensioner, has no value and value, does not have any information.

Let's then poison all the pensioners of the GRU, who now write memoirs about their past, for example, "- suggested the candidate for deputy. Sergei and Julia Scripals were uncovered in the British city of Salisbury in early March. In London, they then announced that they had been poisoned by the nerve agent "Novice", developed in Russia. Moscow rejected these accusations. Currently, Sergei and Julia Skripal are discharged from the hospital, but their treatment continues. Representatives of the Russian authorities do not allow victims of the assassination attempt.