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Of course Russians have a sense of humour – just look at the Salisbury ‘tourists’

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

The comedy of Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, the two glum Russian ‘tourists’ who denied on television that they were involved in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, seems set to run and run. The Moscow press tells us that Russia’s ‘Golden Brand’ has offered them a brand name for a company specialising in tourism, women’s clothing, and chemicals for the scent industry.

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