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.

Thanks to the Russian nerve agent “Novichok,” I once got to see the inside of an interrogation room at Lefortovo, the old KGB prison on the east side of Moscow. It was in 1993. The Russians ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian officials threatened an unchecked escalation of war with West if Ukraine is allowed to use NATO-supplied missiles to strike deeper into Russia.

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 ...

Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal believes Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his Novichok poisoning in 2018, an inquiry into the death of a woman who was unwittingly poisoned by ...

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 lead scientific adviser who advised police after the poisoning of a former Russian spy said it is highly likely "many lethal doses" of nerve agent Novichok were used. Speaking at the Dawn ...