Putin said in an interview conducted on the initiative of the French party on September 14, but about which both the Kremlin and the Elysee Palace had not yet provided incomplete information, Navalny could have seen the newcomer himself for an unspecified reason. According to the letter, he also stated that the composition of this poison is not as complex as previously stated, although it is not even proven that the novelty was used to poison Navalný.
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However, the poisoning by a nerve agent from a group of novices was confirmed by laboratories in Germany and, on the day of the interview, also by specialist laboratories in France and Sweden, independently of the German investigation.
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The Russian president also suggested that the investigation could focus on traces leading to Latvia, where, according to him, one of the novice producers lives. However, he did not specify who it was, and as Le Monde points out, more Soviet scientists are associated with the development of the poison.
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Alexei Navalny
Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko, CTK / AP
Macron emphasized that the novelty could not be used by a private organization, so there was a need for an official explanation. Putin then called Navalny a mere Internet rioter who had simulated poor health in the past and used his Anti-Corruption Fund to blackmail elected officials. Putin explained the absence of an official investigation by saying that French and German experts, who had examined laboratory poisoning by means of laboratory analyzes, did not communicate with Russian specialists. According to the paper, Macron immediately rejected the proposal to investigate the Latvian footprint and the hypothesis that Navalny was deliberately poisoned.
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Post shared Alexey Navalny (@navalny), Sep 22, 2020 at 12:04 pm PDT
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Navalnyj responded to Putin’s accusation on his instagram account with the words: “Good version. So I cooked a newcomer in the kitchen. I drank it discreetly from a plane on a plane. I fell into a coma. My goal of a clever plan was, of course, to die in the Omsk hospital and get to the Omsk morgue, where they would say “he had lived long enough” as the cause of death. He surrounded me. You don’t just catch him. So in the end I went like a jerk in a coma for 18 days, but I still didn’t get my goal. The provocation didn’t work! “
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The opposition leader crashed on a plane on August 20, returning from Siberia to Moscow. Unconscious, he was first treated in Omsk. After international pressure and urging from his family, he was transported to the Charité Clinic in Berlin. Russia has not yet launched a formal criminal investigation into the case, saying it must first examine more evidence.
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Navalný’s health continues to improve. In recent days, he has been sharing photos on his Instagram account that show him walking up the stairs or on the balcony with his wife Julia.
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