Russia's UN envoy referenced "Midsomer Murders", "Alice in Wonderland" and "Crime and Punishment" on Thursday as he attacked Britain at the UN Security Council for Goebbels-style propaganda over the poisoning of a former spy. It was the second showdown between Russia and Britain at the world body since the March 4 nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in an English town. Russia has denied any involvement in the attempted assassination, which has had major diplomatic ramifications, with mass expulsions of Russian and Western diplomats. Earlier on Thursday, Alexander Yakovenko, Russia's ambassador to London, laid out Moscow's position on the Salisbury attack, the latest in series of claim and counter claim surrounding the poisoning. The 15-member Security Council first met over the issue on March 14, when Russia's Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, compared the British government to Inspector LeStrade, a "haple
