The investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the criminal code after the attack in Britain on the Russian Yulia Skripal, said the official authorized SC of Svetlana Petrenko.

Open a case of attempted murder committed publicly dangerous method.

According to Petrenko, the trial will be held " in Accordance with the requirements of the Russian law and norms of international law." On March 4, former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia was found unconscious in the city of Salisbury. According to police, they were poisoned nervously-paralytic substance " Beginner ", as if produced in Russia.

Moscow wanted to obtain access to materials of investigation, but London refused.

later, Prime Minister Theresa may directly accused Russia of involvement in the poisoning and has announced a list of measures aimed against the capital of Russia. London will receive 23 Russian policy, suspends all bilateral contacts at the highest level, and recalls the invitation of Lavrov, to visit the capital of Britain.

the Russian foreign Ministry called the actions of London "information and political show," and the accusations " absolutely crazy." The Ministry stressed that Moscow in the near future to prepare an adequate response to the actions of the London and among them will be expelled British diplomats.

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