Earlier, Charles Rowley, a UK citizen who was allegedly exposed to a military-grade nerve agent in Amesbury last summer, threatened to file a lawsuit against Russia and demand compensation of one million pounds sterling ($1.25 million).
Russia is outside of the UK jurisdiction, the Russian embassy in London said Sunday after the lawyer of the Amesbury poison victim proposed suing the Russian government for damages.
“As regards a hypothetical lawsuit against Russia, let us recall that, under the principle of sovereign equality, the Russian state is not subject to the jurisdiction of the British state, and vice versa,” the embassy said in a statement.“
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