The chemical that appears in the story of the poisoning on 4 March in Salisbury of the former intelligence officer of the GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia, called by various experts and official London "Novice", in fact could produce not only in Russia and the Czech Republic, but also about two dozen countries. This was announced today by the Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ermakov. "There are about 20 such states. You take any western state with a highly developed chemical industry, any of them can produce what the West calls a "newcomer", - quotes RIA Novosti on Friday, May 4, a Russian diplomat. At the same time, Ermakov noted that in Russia all Soviet military chemical programs were completed in 1992. "Therefore, in Russia, there have never been any military chemical technologies reproduced. We completely refused it. And that is why, together with the US, we worked out a convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons and fully opened all of our chemical programs, "the Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed.. On the eve of Czech President Milos Zeman made a sensational statement, telling about the production of the nerve agent A230 in November 2017. Referring to his own intelligence, he reported that in a small amount of poison was manufactured in Brno in the Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, it was tested and then destroyed. In Moscow, this recognition did not remain without attention. At today's briefing, the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova addressed the representatives of the North Atlantic Alliance with the question of who was engaged in the destruction of the Czech "Novice". "Who fixed this? Still, there are relevant experts. How was it documented? All these issues, in particular, to NATO, remain, do not just remain, today were delivered. And they must be answered, "Zakharova said.. In Moscow, they are waiting for reaction to this information in the bloc and the disclosure of those countries that were engaged in the combat poison that has now become so popular after the "case of the Violins".

"And what about NATO?" The North Atlantic alliance did not know that literally a year ago "Newbie" was synthesized on the territory of the Czech Republic? You believe that ... Of course, the North Atlantic Alliance was not only known. But now a good question - who and how, and at what level participated in the supervision of these programs by NATO ... "- she added. Also today, the Russian embassy in London accused of false information from a journalist from The Guardian who wrote yesterday that in the laboratory samples of the OPCW in the "Skripal case" there was no substance BZ, which was previously reported by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, referring to the results of the study of the Swiss center.

"Another example of fake news from Luke Harding: in fact, it was the OPCW that said the BZ substance was among the samples," the embassy wrote on Twitter. In April, the head of the laboratory of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Mark-Michael Bloom, stated that the substance BZ, mentioned in public statements, "was in the control samples prepared by the OPCW laboratory in accordance with the quality control procedure". In a word, the further into the Sherwood forest, the more wood.