Kremlin brushes off allegations in Navalny's Poisoning.
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin brushed off allegations Tuesday that Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the victim of an intentional Poisoning orchestrated by Authorities and said there were no grounds for a Criminal investigation so far since it hasn't been fully established what caused the Politician to fall into a Coma.
(1 of 11) Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking in a court room in Moscow, Russia.
(2 of 11) The wife of the Russian opposition figure Alexei
Navalny, Julia, arrives at the Berlin Charite Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020.
The Russian oppositional Navalny is treated in the clinic. Doctors at
the Berlin Charité Hospital assume that the Kremlin critic has been
poisoned. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
(3 of 11) The bed skyscraper of the Berliner Charite can be seen
behind the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Aug.25,
2020.. In the clinic the Russian oppositional Nawalny is treated.
Doctors of the Berliner Charite assume that the Kremlin critic was
poisoned. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
(4 of 11) The wife of the Russian oppositional Alexei Navalny,
Julia, left, arrives at the Berlin Charite Tuesday, Aug.25, 2020. The
Russian oppositional Navalny is treated in the clinic. Doctors at the
Berlin Charité Hospital assume that the Kremlin critic has been
poisoned. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
(5 of 11) The wife of the Russian oppositional Alexei Navalny,
Julia, left, arrives at the Berlin Charite Tuesday, Aug.25, 2020. The
Russian oppositional Navalny is treated in the clinic. Doctors at the
Berlin Charité Hospital assume that the Kremlin critic has been
poisoned. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
(6 of 11) The wife of the Russian oppositional Alexei Navalny,
Julia arrives at the Berlin Charite Tuesday, Aug.25, 2020. The Russian
oppositional Navalny is treated in the clinic. Doctors at the Berlin
Charité Hospital assume that the Kremlin critic has been poisoned.
(Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
(7 of 11) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and U.S.
Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, left, talk during their
meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (Maria Zakharova via
AP)
(8 of 11) The central building of Charite hospital where Russian
dissident Alexei Navalny is treating, seen behind the Chancellery in
Berlin, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is
calling on Russian authorities to conduct a full investigation of the
poisoning of dissident Alexei Navalny and to bring those responsible to
justice. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
(9 of 11) The central building of Charite hospital where Russian
dissident Alexei Navalny is treating, seen behind the Chancellery in
Berlin, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is
calling on Russian authorities to conduct a full investigation of the
poisoning of dissident Alexei Navalny and to bring those responsible to
justice. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
(10 of 11) The wife of the Russian oppositional Alexei Navalny,
Julia, arrives at the Berlin Charite Tuesday, Aug.25, 2020. The Russian
oppositional Navalny is treated in the clinic. Doctors at the Berlin
Charité Hospital assume that the Kremlin critic has been poisoned.
(Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
(11 of 11) German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes her mask off as
she arrives for a press conference at the Fort de Bregancon, southern
France. Merkel said Monday Aug. 24, 2020, that in view of Alexei
Navalny's prominent role in Russia's political opposition, that Russian
authorities should conduct a full investigation of the alleged poisoning
of the dissident, and to bring those responsible to justice.
(Christophe Simon/Pool FILE via AP)
August 25, 2020
The insistence by the Russian government that Navalny wasn't necessarily poisoned — comments amplified by Russian doctors and pro-Kremlin media — came a day after doctors at a German hospital where the 44-year-old is being treated said tests indicated he was poisoned.
Moscow's dismissals elicited outrage from Navalny's allies, who say the Kremlin was behind the illness of its most prominent critic. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the accusations against the government “absolutely cannot be true and are rather an empty noise.”
“We do not intend to take it seriously," Peskov said. Peskov said he saw no grounds for launching a criminal investigation at this stage, saying that Navalny's condition could have been triggered by a variety of causes and determining what it was should come before such a proble..
“If a substance (that caused the condition) is found, and if it is determined that it is poisoning, then there will be a reason for an investigation,” Peskov said. Navalny, a politician and corruption investigator who is one of Putin’s fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on Thursday and was taken to a hospital in the city of Omsk after the plane made an emergency landing.
Over the weekend, he was transferred to the Charité hospital in Berlin, where doctors on Monday said they have found indications of “cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system. These act by blocking the breakdown of a key chemical in the body, acetycholine, that transmits signals between nerve cells. Navalny is being treated with the antidote atropine.
Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, has been visiting her husband daily and made no comment to reporters as she arrived Tuesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel personally offered Germany's help in treating Navalny and has called for a full Russian investigation — a sentiment echoed Tuesday by officials from the United States, France and Norway.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that if reports about Navalny’s poisoning “prove accurate, the United States supports the EU’s call for a comprehensive investigation and stands ready to assist in that effort.”
In response to statements from European officials, the speaker of the State Duma, Russia's lower parliament house, charged Tuesday that Navalny's condition could have resulted from a Western plot. Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin in tasked lawmakers to look into what happened to Navalny to make sure it wasn't “an attempt by foreign states to inflict harm on the health of a Russian citizen and create tension in Russia” in order to ”come up with more accusations" against the country.
Charité said Monday that Navalny had undergone extensive examination by a team of physicians and that “clinical findings indicate poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors.”
That covers a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs, but also in pesticides and nerve agents. Charité said the specific substance to which Navalny was exposed isn't yet known but that a further series of comprehensive tests had been started.
The suggestion that Navalny was poisoned has been vehemently rejected in Russia, where a number of Kremlin critics fell victims to suspected poisonings in recent years, since last week. Government officials, medical specialists and state-controlled media offered a variety of possible explanations for Navalny's condition.
Doctors in Omsk, a city in Siberia where Navalny was first hospitalized, ruled out poisoning as a diagnosis 24 hours after the politician was admitted and said “a metabolic disorder” was a likely diagnosis.
The editor-in-chief of the RT state-funded TV channel, Margarita Simonyan, speculated that the politician must have suffered from a sharp drop in blood sugar. Some pro-Kremlin news outlets alleged that Navalny mixed moonshine with sleeping pills.The Charité statement on Monday prompted another array of denials. The chief intensivist with Russia’s Heath Ministry, Igor Molchanov, questioned whether detecting “substances affecting cholinesterase” five days after Navalny fell ill was at all possible.
Doctors in Omsk said they tested the politician for cholinesterase inhibitors and didn't find any. Peskov said Tuesday that specialists in Omsk noted “lowered levels of cholinesterase” — an obstruction of cholinesterase enzymes can be detected by blood tests, experts say — in his body in a matter of “hours” after he was brought in, but that it could have been triggered by a number of causes, including by “taking various medications.”
Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, on Tuesday said the government's reluctance to launch an investigation was expected. “It was obvious that the crime would not be properly investigated and a culprit found. However, we all know perfectly well who that is,” Yarmysh tweeted.
Western experts have cautioned that it is far too early to draw any conclusions about how the agent may have entered Navalny's system, but note that Novichok, the Soviet-era nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain, was a cholinesterase inhibitor.
“Cholinesterase inhibitor poisons can be given in many ways, they can be transported in many forms, and are very potent," said Dr. Richard Parsons, a senior lecturer in biochemical toxicology at King's College London. "This is why they are a favored method of poisoning people.”
Dr. Thomas Hartung, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland, said such substances are easy to detect, even days and weeks after the poisoning, and that "we will know soon which substance was used.”
“The Novichok nerve agents, used in the 2018 poisoning of the Russian double agent Skripal in England, also belong to this category of substance,” he said. "I said at the time that the Russians could have have just left a business card at the crime scene, because the substances can be so clearly traced.”
David Rising reported from Berlin. Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
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German hospital: Poisoning signs found in Russian dissident.
BERLIN (AP) — Tests conducted on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny at a German hospital indicate that he was Poisoned,but Doctors said Monday he was being treated with an Antidote and his life was not in immediate danger.
(1 of 7) Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in
a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia.
The German hospital treating Russian dissident Alexei Navalny says
tests indicate that he was poisoned. The Charité hospital said in a
statement Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 that the team of doctors who have been
examining Navalny since he was admitted Saturday have found the presence
of “cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system. Cholinesterase inhibitors
are a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs, but
also pesticides and nerve agents.
(2 of 7) An exterior view of the Charite hospital in Berlin,
Germany. The German hospital treating Russian dissident Alexei Navalny
says tests indicate that he was poisoned. The Charité hospital said in a
statement Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 that the team of doctors who have been
examining Navalny since he was admitted Saturday have found the presence
of “cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system. Cholinesterase inhibitors
are a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs, but
also pesticides and nerve agents.(Paul Zinken/dpa via AP, File)
(3 of 7) Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia, left, arrives at the
Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Russian
oppositional Alexej Nawalny is being treated at the hospital by German
doctors after a suspected poisoning. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
(4 of 7) Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia, background, arrives at the
Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Russian
oppositional Alexej Nawalny is being treated at the hospital by German
doctors after a suspected poisoning. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
(5 of 7) Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia, leaves the Charite hospital
in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. The German hospital treating
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny says tests indicate that he was
poisoned. The Charité hospital said in a statement Monday, that the team
of doctors who have been examining Navalny since he was admitted
Saturday have found the presence of “cholinesterase inhibitors” in his
system. Cholinesterase inhibitors are a broad range of substances that
are found in several drugs, but also pesticides and nerve agents. (Kay
Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
(6 of 7) A protester stands holds a poster reads "poison is the
weapon of a woman, a coward and a eunuch!" during a picket in support of
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the center of St.
Petersburg, Russia. The German hospital treating Navalny says tests
indicate that he was poisoned. The Charité hospital said in a statement
Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 that the team of doctors who have been examining
Navalny since he was admitted Saturday have found the presence of
“cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system. Cholinesterase inhibitors are
a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs, but also
pesticides and nerve agents.
(7 of 7) German police officers stand in front of the emergency
entrance of the Charite hospital, in Berlin, Germany. The German
hospital treating Russian dissident Alexei Navalny says tests indicate
that he was poisoned. The Charité hospital said in a statement Monday,
Aug. 24, 2020 that the team of doctors who have been examining Navalny
since he was admitted Saturday have found the presence of
“cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system. Cholinesterase inhibitors are
a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs, but also
pesticides and nerve agents.
August 24, 2020
The Charité hospital said in a statement that the team of doctors who have been examining Navalny since he was flown from Siberia and admitted Saturday have found indications of “cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had personally offered Germany's assistance in treating Navalny before he was brought to Berlin, said in view of the findings and his "prominent role in the political opposition in Russia, authorities there are now called upon urgently to investigate this crime in detail and in full transparency.”
“Those responsible must be identified and held accountable,” Merkel said. Cholinesterase inhibitors are a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs, but also pesticides and nerve agents. Charité said the specific substance to which Navalny was exposed is not yet known.
“The patient is being treated in intensive care and remains in medically induced coma. While his condition is serious, it is not currently life-threatening," the hospital said in a statement. Cholinesterase inhibitors act by blocking the breakdown of a key chemical in the body, acetycholine, that transmits signals between nerve cells.
This results in overstimulation of the junction between nerves and muscles. Each year hundreds of thousands of people suffer from cholinesterase inhibitors poisoning, mostly due to exposure to pesticides.
Navalny is being treated with the antidote atropine, the hospital said. “Alexei Navalny’s prognosis remains unclear; the possibility of long-term effects, particularly those affecting the nervous system, cannot be excluded," it said.
The hospital added that it has been in close contact with Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, who visited her husband in the Berlin hospital on Sunday and Monday. Navalny, a politician and corruption investigator who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on Thursday and was taken to a hospital in the city of Omsk after the plane made an emergency landing.
His supporters believe that tea the 44-year-old drank was laced with poison — and that the Kremlin is behind both his illness and a delay in transferring him to Germany. German authorities posted a special detail of federal agents and city police at the hospital once Navalny arrived on Saturday out of suspicion he had been the victim of an attack.
“It was obvious that after his arrival, protective precautions had to be taken,” Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told reporters Monday. Navalny’s team last week submitted a request in Russia to launch a criminal probe, but as of Monday, Russia’s Investigative Committee still has not opened a case, Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said.
Yarmysh pointed out that Navalny's team insisted the politician had been poisoned “from the very beginning, despite statements of the Omsk doctors and state propagandists.” “Now our words have been confirmed by tests in independent laboratories. Navalny’s poisoning is no longer a hypothesis, it’s a fact,” Yarmysh said in a tweet.
Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician in Moscow and a close ally of Navalny, in a video statement Monday urged Russia’s law enforcement to investigate “an attempt at the life of a public figure” and to look into the possible involvement of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“It is Putin who benefits from these endless assaults,” Yashin said. The Kremlin has not commented on the allegation. U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said the Navalny case would on the agenda for Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun’s visit to Russia that begins Tuesday.
“With Alexei Navalny in a hospital in Berlin, our dialogue with Russia must include reemphasizing the importance of free speech and civil society,” he told reporters. Navalny was flown to Germany on Saturday from Siberia after much wrangling over whether he was stable enough to be transported.
Before the Charité announcement, Russian doctors said Monday that two laboratories there had found no poisonous substances in Navalny's system. “If we had found poisoning confirmed by something, it would have been much easier for us,” said Anatoly Kalinichecnko, deputy chief doctor of the Omsk Ambulance Hospital No. 1, where Navalny was treated.
“But we received a final conclusion from two laboratories that no toxic chemicals that can be considered poisons or by-products of poisons, were found.” The hospital's chief doctor, Alexander Murakhovsky, rejected allegations made by Navalny’s team that doctors in Omsk had been acting in coordination with Russia’s security services.
“We were treating the patient, and we saved him," Murakhovsky said. “There wasn’t and couldn’t be any influence on the patient’s treatment.” He wasn’t able to identify men in plainclothes spotted in the hospital last week who the politician’s allies said were law enforcement and security service agents.
“I can’t say who they were,” Murakhovsky said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last week he didn’t know anything about security service operatives being present at the hospital. Like many other opposition politicians in Russia, Navalny has been frequently detained by law enforcement and harassed by pro-Kremlin groups. In 2017, he was attacked by several men who threw antiseptic in his face, damaging an eye.
Last year, Navalny was rushed to a hospital from jail where he was serving a sentence on charges of violating protest regulations. His team also suspected poisoning then. Doctors said he had a severe allergic reaction and sent him back to detention the following day.
Daria Litvinova reported from Moscow. Kirsten Grieshaber and Frank Jordans in Berlin and Jim Heintz in Moscow contributed to this report.
This story has been corrected to show that the last name of the Omsk hospital’s chief doctor is Murakhovsky, not Murkhavsky.
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Toxic tea: Multiple Russians hit by suspected Poisonings.
MOSCOW (AP) — When Russian Opposition Politician Alexei Navalny collapsed in an airplane bathroom Thursday,his supporters immediately suspected Poisoning.If true,he wouldn’t be the first Prominent,Outspoken Russian to be the target of toxic Attack,Here are some other people who’ve criticized the Kremlin and then fallen victim to suspected Poisonings:
(1 of 10) Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy and author of the
book "Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within" is photographed at his home
in London. A former agent for the KGB and its post-Soviet successor
agency FSB, Col. Alexander Litvinenko defected and fled to London, where
he fell violently ill in 2006 after drinking tea laced with radioactive
polonium-210. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a coma in a
hospital in Siberia Thursday Aug. 20, 2020 after falling ill from a
suspected poisoning.
2 of 10) In this July 2006 file photo, Russian journalist Anna
Politkovskaya is seen in Moscow. An investigative journalist,
Politkovskaya had written critically about abuses by Russian and
pro-Moscow Chechen forces fighting separatists in Chechnya – work that
earned her repeated death threats. Russian opposition leader Alexei
Navalny is in a coma in a hospital in Siberia Thursday Aug. 20, 2020
after falling ill from a suspected poisoning.
(3 of 10) Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, a
vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, testifies on Capitol
Hill in Washington, before the Senate Appropriation Committee hearing on
"Civil Society Perspectives on Russia." Opposition activist Vladimir
Kara-Murza Jr. was hospitalized with poisoning symptoms twice, in 2015
and 2017. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a coma in a
hospital in Siberia Thursday Aug. 20, 2020 after falling ill from a
suspected poisoning.
(4 of 10) Yulia Skripal poses for the media during an interview
in London. A Russian spy who became a double agent for Britain, Sergei
Skripal, was poisoned with military grade nerve agent Novichok in the
British city of Salisbury in 2018. He and his daughter Yulia spent weeks
in critical condition. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a
coma in a hospital in Siberia Thursday Aug. 20, 2020 after falling ill
from a suspected poisoning. (Dylan Martinez/Pool via AP, File)
(5 of 10)
Pyotr Verzilov, prominent member of the protest group Pussy Riot waits
for his court hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia. Verzilov, a member
of Russia's protest group Pussy Riot, ended up in an intensive care unit
after a suspected poisoning in 2018 and had to be flown to Berlin for
treatment. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a coma in a
hospital in Siberia Thursday Aug. 20, 2020 after falling ill from a
suspected poisoning.
6 of 10) A man holding a placard stands in a one-person picket in
front of a building of a hospital intensive care unit where Alexei
Navalny was hospitalized in Omsk, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020.
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is on a hospital ventilator
in a coma, after falling ill from a suspected poisoning, according to
his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh.
(7 of 10) Reporter Anna Politkovskaya attends a rally against war
in Chechnya in downtown Moscow, seen in this October 2004 file photo.
An investigative journalist, Politkovskaya had written critically about
abuses by Russian and pro-Moscow Chechen forces fighting separatists in
Chechnya – work that earned her repeated death threats. Russian
opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a coma in a hospital in Siberia
Thursday Aug. 20, 2020 after falling ill from a suspected poisoning.
(8 of 10) Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy and author of the
book "Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within", is photographed at his
home in London. Prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov's
killing follows the slaying over the past decade of several other
high-profile critics of President Vladimir Putin and his policies.
Former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, 44, became
sick after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a London
hotel in November 2006 and died three weeks later. Litvinenko had fallen
out with the Russian government and became a strong critic of the
Kremlin, obtaining political asylum after coming to Britain in 2000.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a coma in a hospital in
Siberia Thursday Aug. 20, 2020 after falling ill from a suspected
poisoning.
9 of 10) Vladimir Kara-Murza, 35, Russian opposition activist
poses for a photo in Moscow, Russia. Opposition activist Vladimir
Kara-Murza Jr. was hospitalized with poisoning symptoms twice, in 2015
and 2017. A journalist and associate of murdered opposition leader Boris
Nemtsov and oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Kara-Murza
nearly died from kidney failure in the first incident. He suspects
poisoning but no cause has been determined. Russian opposition leader
Alexei Navalny is in a coma in a hospital in Siberia Thursday Aug. 20,
2020 after falling ill from a suspected poisoning.
(10 of 10) Yulia Skripal during an interview in London. Yulia
Skripal says recovery has been slow and painful, in first interview
since nerve agent poisoning. A Russian spy who became a double agent for
Britain, Sergei Skripal, was poisoned with military grade nerve agent
Novichok in the British city of Salisbury in 2018. He and his daughter
Yulia spent weeks in critical condition. Russian opposition leader
Alexei Navalny is in a coma in a hospital in Siberia Thursday Aug. 20,
2020 after falling ill from a suspected poisoning. (Dylan Martinez/Pool
via AP, File)
ALEXANDER LITVINENKO A former agent for the KGB and post-Soviet successor agency FSB, Col. Alexander Litvinenko defected from Russia in 2000 and fled to London, where he fell violently ill six years later after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210.
He died after three weeks. A British inquiry found that Russian agents had killed Litvinenko, probably with President Vladimir Putin's approval. Russia denied any involvement. Before his death, Litvinenko told journalists that the FSB was still operating a secret Moscow poisons laboratory dating from the Soviet era. He was one of several former Russian intelligence officers to accuse Moscow of being behind the dioxin poisoning of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko during his 2004 election campaign.
At the time of Litvinenko’s poisoning, he had been investigating the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya three weeks earlier. ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA An investigative journalist, Politkovskaya had written critically about abuses by Russian and pro-Moscow Chechen forces fighting separatists in Chechnya – work that earned her repeated death threats.
In 2004, she fell severely ill and lost consciousness after drinking a cup of tea. She said she was deliberately poisoned to prevent her from covering the 2004 seizure of a school in southern Russia by Islamic separatists.
Two years later, Politkovskaya was shot to death outside her Moscow apartment building, a slaying that drew widespread condemnation in the West. Five men were sentenced for carrying out the killing but no one was convicted for ordering it.
VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. was hospitalized with poisoning symptoms twice, in 2015 and 2017. A journalist and associate of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot and killed in 2015 while crossing a bridge near the Kremlin, and oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Kara-Murza nearly died from kidney failure in the first incident. He suspects poisoning but no cause has been determined.
He was taken to a hospital with a sudden, similar illness in 2017 and put into a medically induced coma. His wife said doctors confirmed he was poisoned. Kara-Murza survived, and police have refused requests to investigate the case, according to his lawyer.
SERGEI AND YULIA SKRIPAL A Russian spy who became a double agent for Britain, Sergei Skripal fell ill in the British city of Salisbury in 2018. Authorities said Skripal and his adult daughter, Yulia, were poisoned with the military grade nerve agent Novichok. The two spent weeks in critical condition.
Britain put the blame squarely on Russian intelligence, but Moscow denied any role. Putin called Skripal a “scumbag" of no interest to the Kremlin because he was tried in Russia and exchanged in a spy swap in 2010.
Britain charged two Russian men with the poisoning. They claimed they had visited Salisbury as tourists and denied any involvement in the attack, which came amid revelations about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
PYOTR VERZILOV Verzilov, a member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot, ended up in an intensive care unit after a suspected poisoning in 2018 and had to be flown to Berlin for treatment. German doctors treating him said a poisoning was “highly plausible.” He eventually recovered.
Verzilov, his partner and two other Pussy Riot members had served jail time earlier that year for running onto the field during soccer’s World Cup final in Moscow to protest excessive Russian police powers. He has also served time on other charges that he calls politically motivated.
Subjects: General news, Government and politics, Poisoning, Diseases and conditions People. Vladimir Putin, Alexander Litvinenko, Viktor Yushchenko, Pyotr Verzilov Locations. Moscow, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe Organisations. Russia government
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inhuman or not caring.
Western Securities/Agents should be
on the field, as to counter and checkmate this Putin Russia Migrant Crisis
program as quickly as possible.
Vladimir Putin was appointed prime minister in August 1999 before taking over from Boris Yeltsin as president on 31 December.
