Novichok — which means "newcomer" in Russian — is the codename for a series of nerve agents that Russia allegedly secretly developed in the latter stages of the Cold War.

The European Union is hitting six high-placed Russian officials with sanctions over the suspected assassination attempt of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, citing the use of forbidden ...

Novichok is a series of nerve agent weapons developed as part of a secret Soviet program and continued once the Soviet Union collapsed. A Novichok nerve agent was used to poison the former Russian ...

LONDON — British prosecutors have charged two Russian men with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The Crown Prosecution Service said Wednesday that ...

For decades, scientists, spies and chemical weapons specialists have known about and feared the lethal substance. By Richard Pérez-Peña Few people had heard of the nerve agent Novichok until ...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny addresses demonstrators during a rally to support opposition and independent candidates after authorities refused to register them for September elections ...

A public inquiry in Britain into the killing of a woman in a suspected Russian nerve agent attack in 2018 heard from her mother Tuesday of the intelligence, humor and kindness of her daughter.

The State Department says that Russia's alleged chemical weapons use in Ukraine "comes from the same playbook" as the poisonings of now-deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2020 ...

Novichok is not made up for Carry-On, with the nerve agent actually being a real thing.Novichok is a family of nerve agents ...

Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and then police officer Nick Bailey were all poisoned by Novichok in Salisbury in March 2018. All survived. However, Ms Sturgess, 44, died in July ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --A public inquiry in Britain into the killing of a woman in a suspected Russian nerve agent attack in 2018 heard from her mother Tuesday of the intelligence, humor and kindness of a ...