Russian TV news head hints at country’s role in Skripal poisoning

Editor of state-owned RT network Margarita Simonyan appears to contradict Kremlin position in post about Darya Dugina killing

The influential head of Russia's RT news network has hinted at Russia's role in the poisoning of the former spy Sergei Skripal, in a remarkable post that contradicts the Kremlin's official position on the incident.

In a post on her Telegram channel on Monday, Margarita Simonyan appeared to acknowledge Russia's part in the Skripal poisoning when she wrote that Russian professionals who want to admire spires" should travel to Estonia to go after the alleged killer of Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who was killed in a car bomb on Saturday night.