Vladimir Uglev, one of the developers of Novichok, has died at 80, The Insider reported. From 1975 to 1990, Uglev was a senior researcher at the Volsk branch of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, which developed chemical warfare agents, including Novichok. Uglev became widely known in 2018, when he gave a series of interviews about Novichok after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal.