The interview given by the two suspects in the Salisbury novichok poisonings to RT boss Margarita Simonyan was met with disbelief and ridicule around the world, and inspired dozens of memes, but it was just one of a multitude of fakes and disasters that have been fed to gullible views by Russian TV over the years – particularly since the invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Here are 10 of Russian TV’s most “memorable moments”.
Stop Fake: Salisbury suspects number 1 in top 10 ‘worst hits’ of Russian TV
A handout picture taken on Wilton Road in Salisbury, west of London on March 4, and released by the British Metropolitan Police Service in London on Sept. 5, shows Alexander Petrov (R) and Ruslan Boshirov, who are wanted by British police in connection with the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
