The verdict of the former Russian spy standing at the front of the classroom at Moscow State University is blunt: the Kremlin blew it. They'd been poisoned by Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union. He says they did that by releasing an "information dump" of faked photos showing the two men near the Salisbury crime scene. That, he says, pushed the Russian government to put the men on a Kremlin-supported TV channel. Several who spoke to CBC News said the course was interesting and gave them a lot to think about.

Source: CBC News December 23, 2018 09:00 UTC