Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that a bottle of water with a trace of the Novichok nerve agent was found in his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk after he fell ill on a flight from there to Moscow last month.

Navalny's team alleges Novichok found the hotel water bottle. MOSCOW (AP) — Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that a bottle of water with a trace of the Novichok nerve agent was found in his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk after he fell ill on a flight from there to Moscow last month. (1 of 1) This handout photo published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, shows himself, centre, and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, posing for a photo in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has posted the picture of himself in a hospital in Germany and says he's breathing on his own. He posted on Instagram Tuesday Sept. 15, 2020: "Hi, this is Navalny. I have been missing you. I still can't do much, but yesterday I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day." (Navalny instagram via AP) Navalny later was flown to Germany, where he was kept in an induced coma for more than two weeks as he was treated with an antidote at Berlin's Charite hospital. Members of his team accused the Kremlin of involvement in the poisoning, charges that Russian officials have vehemently denied. The Kremlin has bristled at calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders to answer questions about the poisoning, urging Germany to provide its evidence. On Tuesday, Navalny posted a picture of himself from his hospital bed, hugged by his wife and children. "I still can’t do almost anything on my own, but yesterday I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day,” he added in the post. A video posted on Navalny’s Instagram account on Thursday showed members of his team in plastic gloves inspecting his hotel room in Tomsk before he left the city on Aug. 20 and collapsed on a flight home. The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, where he hospitalized before being taken to Berlin two days later on a medevac plane. Navalny's Instagram post said they went to the room an hour after learning that he had fallen ill, accompanied by a lawyer, and packed the bottles and other items for further inspection. In the video post, someone who appears to be a hotel employee could be heard telling members of the Navalny team that they need to ask police before taking any items from the room, and one of them answered they couldn't do that. “Two weeks later, a German laboratory found a trace of Novichok on a bottle from the Tomsk hotel room,” they said. “And then another three labs that took Alexei's samples proved that he was poisoned with it. Now we understand: It was done before he left his room to go to the airport.” The founder of the Berlin-based organization Cinema for Peace, which helped organize the medevac flight for Navalny, said that some bottles were brought to Germany last month. “I made sure that we flew some of Navalny’s water bottles with us on our plane with Navalny,” Jaka Bizilj told The Associated Press in a text message. There had been previous speculation that Navalny was poisoned at the airport, where he drank a cup of tea before boarding the flight. “We didn’t have much hope of finding something," members of Navalny's team said on Instagram. “But as it was absolutely clear to us that Navalny wasn't just ‘slightly unwell’ or ‘under the weather’ and candy wouldn’t help, we decided to take everything that could hypothetically be of use and hand it over to doctors in Germany.” They noted that they did so because they were aware that Russian authorities would be reluctant to launch a probe. “It was quite obvious that they wouldn’t investigate the case in Russia," they said. "And so it happened: Nearly a month after Russia hasn’t recognized that Alexei was poisoned.” Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh tweeted that “Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok at the hotel before he went to the airport.” But Lyubov Sobol, a top Navalny associate, later tweeted that while “traces of Novichok were found on a bottle from the hotel, it doesn't mean that Navalny was poisoned specifically with the bottle.” A German military lab determined that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the same class of Soviet-era agent that Britain said was used on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, in 2018. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the German lab conducted tests on “various samples from Mr. Navalny,” but neither she nor other German officials have elaborated. On Monday, the German government said independent tests by labs in France and Sweden backed up its findings. The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is also taking steps to have samples from Navalny tested at its designated labs. The Kremlin has said that Russian doctors who treated him in Omsk found no sign that Navalny was poisoned. Russia has repeatedly prodded Germany to share Navalny’s analyses and other medical data and compare notes with the Russian doctors. German officials have responded to Moscow’s request for evidence by saying that Russian authorities must have the samples already since Navalny spent two days in the Omsk hospital. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who canceled a scheduled trip Tuesday to Berlin, said in a TV interview earlier this week that Russian authorities have conducted a preliminary inquiry and documented the meetings Navalny had before falling ill, but he emphasized that investigators need to see evidence of poisoning to launch a full criminal probe. Lavrov accused the West of trying to smear Russia and use the incident as a pretext for new sanctions against Moscow. He argued that Navalny’s life was saved by the pilots of the plane who quickly landed in Omsk after he collapsed on board and by the rapid action of doctors there — something he said Western officials have failed to recognize. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized the European Union's plan to name a prospective sanctions mechanism for punishing human rights violators in honor of Navalny. “We hope that the EU will regain common sense, and our partners will abandon the practice of finger-pointing and will make conclusions only on the basis of real and confirmed facts,” she said. Associated Press writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed. ................ 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..................................................  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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