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The technology of packaging nanoparticles of one substance into a layer of another. This makes Novice easier to use and helps disguise it, according to joint research by Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, The Insider and Radio Liberty.
Russian scientists have developed a new system for delivering the Novichok group venom to the human body using nanocapsules. This is the conclusion reached by researchers from Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, The Insider and Radio Libertywho published a joint investigation.
The new system makes it possible to achieve several objectives at once: in particular, to delay its action and “disguise” – both factors manifested themselves in the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
The investigation noted that the poisoning of Navalny, as well as former GRU employee Sergei Skripal and his daughter and Bulgarian businessman Emelyan Gebrev, may be associated with experiments carried out by scientists in Russia.
Journalists from the publications believe that the Signal Science Center in Moscow, which is formally engaged in export control, is taking a leading role in the development of Novichok family substances. In addition, similar developments are taking place at the St. Petersburg Military Medicine Testing Institute.
“Leader [института] Sergei Chepur repeatedly contacted the director and scientists of the “Signal”, and high-ranking officers of the GRU, even shortly before Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned. The Chepur-led institute is closely related to the Kirov-named St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy, from which one of the “Salisbury Poisoners” graduated, the military physician Alexander Mishkin (known as Alexander Petrov). Chepur repeatedly called both Alexander Mishkin and his superior, Major General Andrei Averyanov, commander of GRU military unit No. 29155, “the investigation said.
In addition to the novice specialists, Signal has experts in the field of nanoencapsulation. This is a technology for packaging nanoparticles of one substance into a shell of another. It simplifies the use of “Novice” and helps to disguise it, the research authors write.
On August 20, the plane in which Navalny flew from Tomsk to Moscow, urgently landed in Omsk due to the deteriorating state of the politician. Navalny was unconscious in the toxic intensive care unit of the Omsk emergency hospital. On August 22 he was taken to the Berlin clinic “Charite” in a specially equipped plane.
On September 2, the German government announced that traces of a substance similar in composition to Novichok had been found in Navalny’s body. The biological material extracted from the politician was examined by the laboratory of the German armed forces. The fact of the poisoning of Navalny with poison from the Novichok group was confirmed by laboratories in France and Sweden.
On October 6, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reported that biomarkers of a cholinesterase inhibitor were found in Navalny’s body. This is a little known nerve agent that is not on the official OPCW list.
Navalny was in a coma for 18 days. The “Charite” doctors announced on September 7 that they had brought him out of a medical coma and disconnected him from the ventilator. On September 14, German doctors reported that the politician is feeling better and is on his feet. On September 22 Navalny was discharged from the clinic, he is in rehabilitation.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the Navalny poisoning allegations were not supported by facts. The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, claims that at the time of the departure to Germany there were no traces of poison on the body of the politician.
As Le Monde wrote, on September 14, during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, Putin suggested that Navalny “for an unknown reason” may have taken poison from the Novichok group himself.
On October 15, the European Union imposed sanctions on six Russian officials for the Navalny poisoning. Britain joined the sanctions.
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