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On Monday morning of last week, Alexei Navalny did something unusual for a victim of an assassination attempt. He called his alleged killers.
It took a few hours before SPIEGEL, after conducting a joint investigation with investigative platforms Bellingcat and The Insider, as well as the US news station CNN, revealed that it was apparently a team of at least eight intelligence service agents. Russian national FSB who attacked the opposition politician in August. Novichok poisoned. Navalny had known the results of the investigation before its publication. He decided without further ado to face the suspects personally. The following descriptions are based on a recording of the events.
He first dialed the number of Michail Schwez, 43, one of eight FSB agents who were allegedly involved in the poison attack. Navalny pretended to be an adviser to Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Russian Security Council. But Schwez recognized Navalny’s voice and quickly hung up again.
