There’s nothing the Nats wouldn’t do to give their independence obsession a little more airtime. They’ll take the publicity from wherever they can get it – and that includes the pro-Putin Russia Today programme. It has emerged that First Minister Humza Yousaf appeared on the controversial channel twice in the past, first in 2013 and then again in 2017, when he was transport minister, after the annexation of Crimea.
The SNP’s minister for Europe at the time, Yousaf talked in 2013 about how his party’s white paper on independence had helped...
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