'We got really lucky': how novichok suspects' identities were revealed

Old-school journalism and intuition are behind success of Bellingcat and The Insider sites

The odds of finding the Salisbury novichok poisoning suspects’ real identities seemed remote.

The man who called himself Ruslan Boshirov had no social media profiles, no publicly registered businesses or phonebook listings, and after giving a brief and bizarre interview on the state-funded RT television station earlier this month, many Russia watchers assumed he would simply disappear into the ether.

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