Read the transcript of an RT interview (The Telegraph)It's genuinely the cathedral that made me laugh. Just to survive sure, I create realize that none of the feelings I accept may survive considered terribly potent evidence. People accept different interests. And most importantly, if these 2 men attempted to toxicant Skripal and/or his daughter, it doesn't hateful that the Kremlin or whatever other Russian potency is involved.
90-second video excerpt from that Margarita Simonyan interview; for total interview, come across the bottom
On her Twitter account, the journalist Ms Simonyan said that the men looked nervous in addition to they were sweating. I had the same feeling. Also, I had some really hard to depict feeling that they were trying to imitation some gestures. However, it's totally plausible that they were nervous because they are genuinely inwards a hard province of affairs at nowadays – fifty-fifty if they are innocent.
OK, in addition to thence their even out says: it's genuinely them on the photographs, the names are their existent names, they are regular Russian men, entrepreneurs inwards sports nutrition etc., they don't desire to bring out also much nigh their privacy (but they clearly wanted the audiences to think that they're homosexual partners; but at i moment, they also dot they are "two at in i trial men" when they're asked nigh the perfume), they hadn't known the call of Skripal earlier the nightmare started, in addition to they went to Great Britain equally tourists.
They claim to accept seen some places inwards London, Stonehenge (the Great Britain must accept pictures from all the places but they're deliberately non shown – it looks similar a sensible complaint), in addition to they also went to Salisbury which is famous non solely inwards Europe but fifty-fifty inwards the whole world.
I realize my reaction may survive childish but I couldn't resist to express joy at that point. Salisbury is famous inwards the whole world? We are told that they wanted to come across Old Sarum, a identify of the cathedral where you lot tin move solely come across some fields now, addition the famous Salisbury Cathedral which is 123 meters tall.
OK, it's pretty tall in addition to a chip taller (and arguably prettier) than the St Bartholomew Cathedral, the so-called Pilsner Tower, which has 103 meters (there is a famous local folk vocal nigh the Pilsner Tower that surpasses the hills in addition to I don't attention whom my lady friend dates LOL) in addition to is tallest inwards Czechia-or-Slovakia. There are likely some Russian tourists inwards Salisbury which could brand their statements expect plausible but I yet detect the justifications a chip comical.
Even inwards the representative of Pilsen, I think that almost no tourists are genuinely visiting Pilsen to come across the Pilsner Tower. And a cathedral that no longer exists? Are at that spot genuinely many Russian tourists who commonly see such places? Salisbury is a metropolis of 40,000. It is some a šithole. They acknowledge to accept visited Salisbury in addition to the query why they did it looks rather of import to me.
My impression nigh the church building even out is the following: They prepared for the query "why you lot went to Salisbury" in addition to thence they opened a Wikipedia page nigh Salisbury in addition to flora that there's the church building there, in addition to thence they just said it was the most of import affair nigh that identify that made them larn inwards at that spot (in 2 different days).
On the other hand, if Russian tourists routinely see Salisbury every day, the Britons could accept only picked some random convenient Russian tourists who went to that town on that solar daytime – in addition to Petrov in addition to Bashirov could accept been the unlucky men.
One must survive careful non to express joy also much because many things that audio extremely implausible, sometimes comical, to random ears are genuinely true. There are many people in addition to they create many interesting things. With some moderate selection, it is tardily to pick some folks who could expect suspect but whose even out nigh the tourism in addition to its motivation looks extremely unlikely or comical.
Let me offering you lot an example. Imagine that an 82-year-old Canadian mathematician of Czech root – who started a rather famous grouping inwards Ottawa some four decades agone – is defendant of some wrongdoing inwards Prague yesterday, on Wednesday. His defence strength would audio similar this:
I accept perfect alibi.Now, this looks utterly silly, doesn't it? Why would an 82-year-old Canadian mathematics professor go to some šithole inwards Czech Republic amongst 7,000 inhabitants (not counting the statue of 2 pigs) to come across some irrelevant church building (that is most famous for appearing inwards a prank telephone call to an alleged homeless pensioner that also mocks the Pilsner accent)? Why would he survive visiting an unproblematic schoolhouse at the boundary of the Bohemian Forest – the smallest schoolhouse inwards the province – in addition to fifty-fifty if he did, why would he create it on the solar daytime when all the schoolkids in addition to teachers are away?
I accept spent the whole solar daytime on a trip. In the morning, I took my motorcar in addition to drove to see the smallest unproblematic schoolhouse inwards Czechia, inwards the market-town [městys] of Čachrov – 100 miles from Prague. There could survive lots of witnesses of my see over at that spot because Čachrov has 500 inhabitants. Sadly, precisely when I visited the school, all the 24 students of the schoolhouse went to their ain trip – to come across the Black Lake inwards the nearby Bohemian Forest (20 miles away).
So unfortunately, no schoolkids inwards Čachrov may testify that I was there. But I also visited the glorious Church of the Assumption of Mary inwards Přeštice, a town of 7,000 people, nigh twenty meters from the statue of the famous genetically modified pigs from that town. Sadly, solely the external door of the church building was opened upwards in addition to no i was there. And the knight castle of Švihov in addition to the Kozel [Male Goat] Castle for hunting – no peacocks were there. Maybe the director of the parking lot nigh Kozel could recollect me but perchance he volition prefer to rest soundless because the $1 for parking likely went to his bag in addition to thence he needs to claim that I wasn't there.
Well, there's i witness who tin move confirm all these things. He blogs at .
It just doesn't add together up, does it? Except that I tin move indeed confirm that the whole testimony inwards a higher identify is perfectly truthful in addition to accurate. The same affair may survive truthful for Petrov in addition to Bashirov. Descriptions of trips sometimes audio empty-headed because trips aren't perfectly pre-planned in addition to peculiarly the justifications of the trips are usually non carefully engineered for them to audio logical.
But my feeling is that the 2 Russian men audio suspect, anyway. Either they're guilty or the Britons did a pretty practiced project inwards picking the suspects whose defence strength is outflow to audio rather implausible.
Full interview. The claim that at that spot was snow inwards Salisbury on March 2nd when they arrived is valid. It melted inwards the next days.
I flora this total video to a greater extent than persuasive but yes, it made me express joy at some moments. When they praised the world-famous Salisbury clock. And the query "u vas byl novičok". It reminded me of Ded Moroz's "rebyata menya nye khochut, rebyata khochut Pikachu".