Alexeï Navalny affair: media point to the FSB in the poisoning of the opponent
Opponent Alexei Navalny in Moscow, February 29, 2020. REUTERS / Shamil Zhumatov
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According to a consortium of journalists who processed a large amount of data, the FSB, the Russian Federal Security Service, is involved in the stocking of the main opponent of Vladimir Putin, Alexeï Navalny.
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Bellingcat, an investigative website in cooperation with
Der Spiegel
and CNN, claims that several FSB agents are involved in the
poisoning of Alexei Navalny
.
Bellingcat had previously revealed that the GRU, the Russian secret service, were responsible for the poisoning of
Sergei and Yulia Skripal
in 2018 in the United Kingdom, an assassination attempt which resulted in the death of a British citizen.
During this new investigation, Bellingcat reveals that since the official closure of Russia's chemical weapons program in 2010, two institutes have continued to research deadly chemicals, one in St. Petersburg and the other in Moscow.
The detection in
Alexeï Navalny's
blood
of toxins close to Novichok which had been used to poison the Skripals suggested so, but by monitoring the movement under false identities of two doctors and a third FSB agent who followed Alexeï Navalny to the city of Tomsk where he fell into a coma, Bellingcat demonstrates the involvement of the service responsible for Russian internal security affairs in this affair.
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