Swiss lab: Skripal poisoned by Western toxin., page-40

Yeah maybe. But the world has shrunk noticeably since those days. Mobile phones, internet etc.
Woe betide anyone who tries to pull the wool these days.

Any more than half reasonable person would surely have to say, with the smoking guns littering the landscape over the last 15 years from London to St Petersburg and back, the number of defenders of dear Vlad is remarkable. Really.

Plenty enough of his locals are rather less starry eyed ...