{"id":354731,"date":"2018-04-01T01:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/yulia-skripal-improving-rapidly-the-unravelling-of-the-russian-novichok-narrative\/"},"modified":"2018-04-01T01:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:07:55","slug":"yulia-skripal-improving-rapidly-the-unravelling-of-the-russian-novichok-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/yulia-skripal-improving-rapidly-the-unravelling-of-the-russian-novichok-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Yulia Skripal \u201cimproving rapidly\u201d: The unravelling of the Russian Novichok narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Yulia Skripal \u201cimproving rapidly\u201d: The unravelling of the Russian Novichok narrative<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Chris Marsden<br \/>\n    <br \/>31 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>When placed in the context of the global anti-Russia propaganda campaign spearheaded by Britain\u2019s Conservative government, Thursday saw the greatest Easter miracle since Christ rose from the dead.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, the world\u2019s media has cited uncritically government claims that double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned March 4 with a \u201cweapons grade\u201d nerve agent, known as a Novichok.<\/p>\n<p>The agent was described as so deadly that the comatose Skripals were unlikely to ever recover, and that if they did they would be brain damaged and physically compromised. On Wednesday there were even media headlines that their life support might have to be turned off.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Thursday saw reports from Salisbury NHS foundation trust that 33-year-old Yulia is no longer in a critical condition and was \u201cconscious and talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yulia\u2019s apparent recovery blows a hole in an official narrative that, by rights, should sink it forever. Instead, as has happened on repeated occasions, the story will no doubt be modified as required. Nothing must be allowed to prevent the UK, in alliance with the United States, from continuing its push for further economic sanctions and the expulsion of diplomats to justify pre-existing plans for military aggression on Russia\u2019s borders and in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>There are innumerable inconsistencies, contradictions and flat out lies in the case made against Russia. Above all there has been no convincing political explanation advanced as to why Russia would target the Skripals.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is there anything linking the attempted murder of the pair to anyone\u2014least of all the Russian state and the government of President Vladimir&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/31\/yuli-m31.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Yulia Skripal \u201cimproving rapidly\u201d: The unravelling of the Russian Novichok narrative By Chris Marsden 31 March 2018 When placed in the context of the global anti-Russia propaganda campaign spearheaded by Britain\u2019s Conservative government, Thursday saw the greatest Easter miracle since Christ rose from the dead. For weeks, the world\u2019s media has cited uncritically government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}