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On October 16, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Euronews, a European paid television network headquartered in Lyon, France, that the open-source intelligence (OSINT) organization Bellingcat is connected with Western intelligence agencies, who supposedly leak information to the outfit in order to influence public opinion. Lavrov’s comments came in response to Bellingcat’s recent investigation which, with the help of the privately-owned Russian Website The Insider, uncovered the identities of the two main suspects in the Salisbury poisoning case. To date, neither the Russian government nor their media outlets have come up with an explanation to counter the Bellingcat and Insider claims, and instead have been touting the narrative of Bellingcat’s alleged ties to Western intelligence agencies. For example, on October 12, Russia’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alexander Yakovenko, told reporters at a press conference the same line about Bellingcat and Western intelligence agencies. When asked by a reporter if he could provide any evidence to support this claim, the ambassador replied in a London news conference.I cannot present you the evidence
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