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Who is Sergei Skripal?

Agent. Prisoner. Focus on.

The Skripal Data files tells the story of Sergei Skripal, the complex and mysterious victim out of this year’s most explosive news story. Tag Urban interviewed Skripal in the months before the poisoning and points out how Skripal’s life has come to define the brand new spy battle between Russia as well as the West.

4 about The Skripal Data files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy March 2018, Salisbury, England.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were enjoying a uncommon and peaceful Weekend spent jointly, completely unaware that they had been poisoned using the deadly nerve agent Novichok. Hours afterwards both were discovered slumped on the park bench near death.

Following their attempted murders on British land, Russia was publicly accused by the West of carrying out the attack, marking a fresh low for international relations between the two because the end from the Cold War.

The Skripal Data files is the definitive account of how Skripal’s story fits into the wider context of the brand new spy war between Russia as well as the Western world. The reserve explores enough time Skripal spent being a spy in the Russian armed service cleverness, how he was turned to work as a realtor by MI6, his imprisonment in Russia and his eventual release as part of a spy-swap that would provide him to Salisbury where, on that fateful time, he and his little girl discovered themselves fighting because of their lives.

‘With respect to traitors, they’ll kick the bucket independently, I assure you . Whatever thirty pieces of silver those individuals may have gotten, they will stay in their neck.’

Vladimir Putin, 2010