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British Bellingcat has given CNN, Der Spiegel and The Insider access to very rich material to uncover the truth behind the poison attack that nearly took the life of Alexei Navalny on a plane to Moscow on August 20. FSB scouts are said to have followed him in 37 different places since he announced his presidential candidacy in December 2016.
The survey indicates that they tried to poison him earlier, at least the previous month, when he went on vacation with his wife Julia to Kaliningrad and she suddenly fell ill. Navalny later said that his description of the symptoms was similar to what he felt himself: “the sensation of impending death” and at that time communication was particularly intense between designated FSB officers, three of whom had just returned from Kaliningrad.
Alexei Navalny flew to Germany for emergency care and doctors have confirmed that the poison in question was the infamous novitjok nerve gas that only Russia has access to. Just before the attack, there was another occasion when communication between FSB agents became closer, according to the Bellingcat review.
It is based on phone lists and travel records that clearly indicate that the poisoning occurred in the name of “higher levels of the Kremlin.” The attack on Navalny is also said to be just one part of an internal assassination program against various critics of the government.
The program, Bellingcat claims, was led by a general who had previously worked at the Sikhanyj City Institute of Chemists, where Soviet researchers conducted novitiates during the Cold War. Otherwise, the killing group must have been made up of chemical weapons experts, doctors, and special agents.
A wide range of countriesHuman rights organizations, international communities, and experts have previously stated that Navalny was exposed to the Soviet nerve agent novichok. However, Russia has consistently rejected the allegations (in November, Russian doctors said it had only suffered from metabolic problems and pancreatitis) and therefore the likelihood that the Kremlin will take this revelation seriously is considered unlikely.
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