These are the Kremlin opponents who have been poisoned

Your critic Kremlin Alexei Navalny, found in the unit intensive care unit of a Berlin hospital, was poisoned by a soviet style Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate him, said the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

This made some politicians and diplomats from Germany propose a European response, including the gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.

Watch the videos related to the Navalny poisoning:

At first video It appears that Navalny is heading to a table as his secretary brings a glass of tea a few minutes later.

At second video, but 8 minutes later it seems that a waitress approaches Navalny’s table and leaves two more glasses of tea.

Here are some details on previous episodes in which the Kremlin’s opponents have been a victim of poisoning or are suspected of being poisoned.

Sergei skripal

A former Russian double agent who had secretly leaked to British intelligence, Skripal, 66, and his daughter, JuliaThe 33-year-old were found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in March 1918 in the English city of Salisbury.

They were taken to hospital in critical condition and British officials said they were poisoned with Novichok, a group of nerve agents developed by the Soviet army in the 1970s and 1980s.

HE Russia has denied any role in the poisoning and claims that the Brittany encourages anti-Russian hysteria.

Chemistry “It causes the heart to slow down and close the airways, causing death by suffocation”, said Gary Stevens, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Reading. “One of the main reasons these agents have been developed is because their ingredients are not on the banned list.”

Vladimir Kara-Murza

The Russian opposition activist says he believes poisoning attempts were made in 2015 and 2017. A German laboratory found elevated levels of mercury, copper, manganese and zinc in his body, according to medical reports seen by Reuters. Moscow has denied any involvement.

Alexander Litvinenko

The former KGB agent and critic of the Russian president Vladimir Putin They died at the age of 43 after drinking green tea in which they had spilled polonium-210, a rare and powerful radioactive isotope, at London’s Millennium Hotel, British officials said.

Putin probably approved of the assassination, was the conclusion reached in 2016 by a British investigation. The Kremlin has denied any involvement.

An investigation by a high-ranking British judge revealed that the former KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi and another Russian, or Dmitry Kovtun, committed the murder in the context of an operation that, according to the judge, may have been orchestrated by the Russian Federal Security Service FSB, the main heir to the Soviet KGB.

Litvinenko had fled from Russia to Great Britain exactly six years before the day he was poisoned.

Alexander Perepilitsny

The 44-year-old Russian was found dead in November 2012 near his luxurious home in a guarded neighborhood outside the London after having gone out for a run.

Perepilitsny had sought refuge in Britain in 2009 after assisting in a Swiss money laundering investigation in Russia. His sudden death raised suspicions that he might have been killed.

British police have ruled out the possibility of criminal activity despite suspicions that he may have been killed by a rare poison. The investigation into his death has not yet reached definitive conclusions about how he died.

At a hearing it was reported that traces of a rare and deadly poison derived from the gelsemium plant were found in his stomach.

Perepilitsny had eaten a deep bowl of soup containing lapatho, a popular Russian dish. Russia has denied any involvement.

Viktor Yushchenko

Yushchenko, then the leader of the Ukrainian opposition, was poisoned during his campaign for the 2004 presidential elections, in which he ran for pro-Western elections against the prime minister. Viktor Yanukovych supported by Moscow.

He said he was poisoned when he went out to dinner in Kiev with Ukrainian security agents. Russia has denied any involvement.

His body was found to contain 1,000 times more dioxins than it could normally have. his face and body were deformed by the poisoning and then he had to undergo dozens of surgeries.

Georgi markov

A Bulgarian writer, journalist and opponent of the then communist leadership of the country, Markov rebelled in the West in 1969 and died on September 11, 1978, after suffering a severe puncture in the thigh while waiting for the bus on the Waterloo Bridge.

According to the episode’s descriptions, Markov looked back and saw a man picking up an umbrella that had fallen to the ground. The man muttered “I’m sorry” before walking away.

Markov later died of ricin poisoning, for which there is no antidote. The protesters accused the Soviet KGB of being behind the murder.

Source: ΑΠΕ – ΜΠΕ

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