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On September 21, 2021, the European Human Rights Court’s Chamber overwhelmingly held Russia responsible for the poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko.[1] On the same day, the British government named Denis Sergeev as a suspect in the Novichok poisoning of former Russian spy, Sergei V. Skripal and his daughter Yulia.[2]
[1] Carter v. Russia, European Court of Human Rights, (Application no. 20914/07), Judgment, Sept. 21, 2021 https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-211972%22]}.
[2] Michael Schwirtz and Cora Engelbrecht, U.K. Police Charge Third Man in Effort to Assassinate Russian Dissident, N.Y. Times, Sept. 22, 2021, at A9, col. 1.