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A Russian investigative journalist said he had left the country, fearing to be sued for his work.
Sergei Kanev, who participated in a Bellingcat investigation into the identity of the two main suspects accused by Britain of poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, said that He was on a "vacation" in one of the Baltic states.
Addressing Russian media RBK on September 29, Kanev said: "Several of my investigations have angered some senior officials."
"It's not just Boshirov and Petrov," Kanev said, citing the two main suspects of Skripal intoxication in Salisbury on 4 March.
The Bellingcat investigative website of 20 September revealed that a joint investigation with Business Insider had confirmed that the two suspects, Ruslan Boshirov and Aleksandr Petrov, had links with Russian military intelligence services, doubt the claims of the two suspects that they would be mere tourists visiting England at the time. l & # 39; attack.
On September 26, Bellingcat announced and Insider had determined that Borishov was actually Anatoly Chepiga, a member of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, who had received the most prestigious award from Russia in 2014.
The Kremlin denied participating in intoxication with a nerve agent from Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.
The Skripals survived the attack with the Soviet-style Novichok neurotoxic agent at Salisbury on 4 March.
An inhabitant of a nearby English town died later after apparently being in contact with the poison.
The poisoning carries an extra blow to relations between Russia and the West, already strained by Syria and Russia's actions in Ukraine.
