Russia town plans to copyright name of poison used on ex-spy
Russia's Shikhany town plans to copyright the word 'Novichok', the type of nerve agent allegedly used to poison former spy Sergei Skripal in the UK. Shikhany plans to copyright the word as a brand name for a line of household cleaning products, the town's Mayor Andrey Tatarinov said. British media had claimed that the nerve agent was produced in Shikhany.