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Before the authorities in Britain identified Ruslan Boshirov and Aleksandr Petrov as assassins sent by the Russian government to poison a former spy living in England, men with these names traveled several times within Europe, worked in the pharmaceutical industry and kept social media profiles.

But the portraits sketched by public records and social media are very thin, and even in places where people would be expected to know them, no evidence has emerged that anyone did. British officials say the names are probably aliases.

The meager details of two lives sketched from records reported by Russian news organizations could show the real biographical information of people who just did not leave much of a trail, cases of mistaken identity, or the meticulous work of a spy agency creating a cover, or “legend” in espionage parlance, for agents before a mission.

According to Fontanka, a Russian news website, records show that Mr. Boshirov was born on April 12, 1978, in Dushanbe, now the capital of Tajikistan, and then the principal city of one of the Soviet Union’s republics.

A Mr. Boshirov had listed as an address a 25-story residential building on Bolshaya Naberezhnaya, a quiet street in a bedroom district of northwest Moscow. But when the news site called neighbors, they were told an elderly woman lives in the apartment and that no men were among her visitors.

The website also reported evidence that Mr. Boshirov was cited for two traffic violations a few days apart in July 2015. But the case numbers for the two enforcement proceedings did not match typical sequences, and two public databases that would normally include traffic violations did not list the infractions.
Mr. Boshirov’s pages on Facebook and VKontakte, a Russian social media site, identify him as a graduate of Moscow State University’s geography department who specialized in land hydrology and worked at Headway, a Moscow company that operates a system for monitoring drug purchases. The only photo on his Facebook account, uploaded in October 2014, shows a view of Old Town Square in Prague.

The Daily Mail, a British newspaper, reported that until this week, Mr. Boshirov had a single friend on Facebook, a woman named Yuliya Chopivskaya from Dnepr, Ukraine. She told The Daily Mail that her only encounter with the man who identified himself as Ruslan was about five years ago in Prague and lasted for just half an hour, after which she added him as a friend on Facebook.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/world/europe/russia-novichok-attack.html