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Russia is expected to be Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalni, 44, who woke up 18 days after slipping into a coma following a terrorist poison attack.
According to a BBC report on the 15th (local time), Navalni spokesman Kira Yamashi said: “Navalni plans to return to Russia” and “I have not thought of other options.” He also wrote on his Twitter: “It is quite confusing because there are many people telling us not to return.”
Navalni is seen as the centerpiece of the Russian opposition, which is called “Putin’s biggest policy,” and is seen as a thorn in the side of President Vladimir Putin. Navalni, a lawyer and former anti-corruption activist, has criticized Putin and engaged in anti-government activities via internet blogs since the late 2000s.
In 2011, in a radio interview with Putin’s ruling party, the United Russia Party was criticized as “a party of scammers and thieves,” which became a representative nickname for opposition supporters to mock the ruling party. He exposed the corruption and political conflict of the Putin regime through social media and led anti-government protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Navalni also criticized last month’s amendment referendum, which turned Putin’s life in power into an “unconstitutional and constitutional coup.”
Meanwhile, on the 20th of last month, Navalni lost consciousness after drinking a cup of tea (茶) at the airport just before boarding a domestic plane returning from Siberia to Moscow, showing symptoms of poisoning. Later, a German human rights organization launched an ambulance flight to Russia to transport Navalni to Berlin, and the German government announced on the 2nd that a deadly poison, Nobichok, had been found in his body.
Nobichok is a poison used by Russia in an attempt to poison 69-year-old Sergei Scrifal, a stunt double who became naturalized in Britain in 2018. While working in Europe as a Russian military intelligence agent in the 1990s, Scripal was captured by the British intelligence agency MI6 and worked as a double espionage, then naturalized in Great Britain.
Scripal and his 36-year-old daughter Julia, who lived in Salisbury, south London, became addicted to Nobichok after grabbing the doorknobs of their houses when they returned from their home in March 2018. Members of the Russian Reconnaissance Office had previously buried the Nobichok in the door handle. The Scriphal woman managed to save her life while wandering around the police.
This is not the first time that Navalni has nearly lost his life. In July last year, when Putin prevented influential independent candidates from registering for the elections, a massive protest with tens of thousands of people gathered in Moscow, etc., he was arrested for instigating the protests.
Even at that time, he was addicted to an unknown chemical in the detention center, which gave him an allergic attack and he was hospitalized. At the time, Navalni’s lawyer said: “He ate the same thing as the other five people imprisoned in the same room as the detention center, but the remaining five had no problem.” In 2017, a pro-government activist shot chemical terror in his eyes. As a result of this, he is known to be partially blind in one eye.
