“At the instigation of the Berlin Charité Clinic, a toxicological analysis of samples from Alexei Navalny was carried out by a special laboratory of the German army.
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Navalny is being treated at the Charité clinic in Berlin, where he was unconscious last month with symptoms of poisoning from Russia.
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“The federal government condemns the attack as strongly as possible. The Russian government is required to explain this event without delay,” the German government said.
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The cabinet also announced that the German Foreign Ministry would notify the Russian ambassador of the result of the laboratory tests and that it would discuss the matter and further steps with partners in the European Union and NATO. He wants advice on an “appropriate joint response”. The German government also intends to turn to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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According to Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin did not receive information about Navalny’s poisoning from Germany. Russian investigators found no sign of poisoning, TASS wrote.
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Soviet warfare agent
Novičok is a group of nerve-paralytic chemical warfare agents that were developed in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Experts claim that the fluid of a newcomer with the volume of a snowflake is enough to kill a person within a few minutes. It is very difficult to trace such a small amount of a toxic substance.
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Forty-four-year-old Navalny was hospitalized in mid-August after feeling ill during a flight from Siberian Tomsk to Moscow. The plane had to make an emergency landing in Omsk, and Navalny was taken unconscious to a hospital there.
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According to the Navalny spokesman, he was probably poisoned by a substance mixed into tea. Doctors from Omsk Hospital originally stated that they did not find any traces of poison in his body.
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Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by tea poison, he said
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The Germans offered to take care of the leader of the Russian opposition at the Charité Hospital in Berlin and took him into care.
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Navalny is one of the most prominent figures in the Russian opposition and has been imprisoned several times in the past. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in 2018 concluded that the repeated detention of Navalny by the Russian authorities between 2012 and 2014 was politically motivated.
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