Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova Russia has denounced as unacceptable a recent statement by France and Germany accusing the Kremlin of poisoning opposition figure Alexei Navalny, saying it amounts to blackmail...

This photo taken on April 16, 2018 shows people standing in front of damaged buildings, in the city of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria...

This file photo taken on April 18, 2018 shows the logo of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) pictured outside the headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands...

A file photo of the headquarters of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Russia has censured as untrustworthy a recent report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) - tasked with probing a series of suspected chemical attacks on a Syrian town in 2017, saying the watchdog has violated the basic principle of its work by conducting a remote investigation without visiting the sites...

A former inspector with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) - tasked with investigating a suspected chemical attack on Syria’s Douma in 2018 - says the final report that the watchdog issued on the incident ran contrary to the findings of its own fact-finding mission...