30 minutes in Salisbury

The situation got weird when Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly urged the two men to go on TV, and last Thursday, they appeared on RT, a Russian international news channel, to explain their brief trip.

Britain has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of sending assassins to kill former Soviet spy Sergei Skripal and of using a banned weapon. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 17, 2018

LONDON, U.K.—Salisbury is a nice old English town with a fine cathedral, only an hour and a half from London by train, but it doesn’t see many Russian tourists in wintertime. It’s not as cold as Moscow, but Russians tend to prefer Mediterranean destinations for h...

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