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The latest events involving Russian opposition politician Alexej Navalny caused an international stir. US Congressman Bill Keating said on Twitter that he is closely following the case. He announced that he would soon hold a hearing at the subcommittee for Europe to further investigate the matter.
After the revelations by SPIEGEL and his partners, the Kremlin’s own opponent, Navalny, called up the agents of the FSB national intelligence service and made them speak: he pretended to be the assistant to a Putin adviser and learned exactly how he was supposed to do it. they would kill.
Russian journalist and secret service expert Irina Borogan writes that the attack on Navalny came as a shock even to her. He has been reporting on the FSB for years. Borogan describes the agents as “stupid” and that makes them even more dangerous.
Johns Hopkins University professor of politics Thomas Rid even compares Nawalny on Twitter to one of the most famous agents in film history: Jason Bourne. The action hero would look lame against Navalny. “Just awesome!” He comments on current events.
The media reported the revelations around the world, including the British BBC. On Monday Navalny posted a recording of a telephone conversation with a suspected agent of the Russian internal secret service FSB, who admitted to the attack. The video with the phone call itself was viewed more than half a million times three hours after it was posted.
Navalny collapsed on a domestic flight in Siberia in August. Findings from various Western laboratories later showed war agent Novichok in his body. The alleged FSB man said in the now-posted phone call that the poison was adhering to the inside of Nawalny’s underwear.
The FSB reacted to the post overnight: It was a forgery, the secret service said, according to the state agency Ria Novosti. Navalny’s “alleged investigations” are a “planned provocation to discredit the Russian FSB.” Investigations would be launched.
