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New info emerges on poisoning of Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny

New details emerged Thursday about the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, including video from inside his hotel room purportedly taken just after the attack. Colleagues of the vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin said tests had revealed traces of a nerve agent on a water bottle from the hotel room.

The video posted to Navalny's Instagram account purportedly shows members of his team combing through his hotel room just one hour after learning that he'd fallen gravely ill on a domestic flight in Russia.

His associates can be seen carefully collecting anything that might provide clues. As
CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports, Navalny's team claim a German lab has confirmed that traces of a highly toxic Novichok nerve agent were detected on the water bottle found in the room.

The Russian dissident's representatives originally said they believed he was likely poisoned with a cup of tea at an airport in the country's northern Siberia region, before boarding the flight to Moscow.

During that flight, Navalny fell violently ill and the plane made an emergency landing in Siberia, where he was hospitalized for several days before being airlifted to Berlin for treatment.

But chemical weapons expert Hamish DeBretton Gordon, who recently published a book on his work in the field entitled "Chemical Warrior: Saving Lives on the Front Line of Modern Warfare," told CBS News that the tea-at-the-airport theory always seemed unlikely.

"Putting it on a water bottle would ensure that Navalny would poison himself," said de Bretton-Gordon, explaining that Novichok is so deadly, just coming into contact with "a single molecule" can prove fatal.

Contaminating a water bottle that an intended target is expected to pick up, "makes a lot more sense" than trying to slip it into a cup of tea quickly in a busy airport, he told CBS News. It also appears similar to the tactics used in an attack on a former Russian double agent the U.K.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter were both poisoned with Novichok in the English city of Salisbury in 2018. The U.K. has charged two alleged Russian agents in the attack, which left one woman dead after she sprayed the nerve agent onto her arm, thinking it was perfume.

"It's very similar to the delivery from the Salisbury attack, where the Novichok was put on a [door] handle," said de Bretton-Gordon. He said that, just as was the case in England, there would likely be a rush in Siberia to see "who else has been contaminated and poisoned, remembering that Salisbury took 18 months to decontaminate from probably a similar amount."

The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the poisoning of Putin's fiercest opponent, accusing Germany of refusing to hand over data or lab samples that prove the accusation of Novichok poisoning.

Labs in Sweden and France have now backed the German findings, however, and on Thursday, the global chemical weapons watchdog agency, the OPCW, confirmed that representatives had visited the Berlin hospital to collect samples from Navalny, and that its findings would be forthcoming.

The first photo showing Navalny since the poisoning was posted to his Instagram account earlier this week. He was pictured sitting up in his hospital bed, looking alert and surrounded by his wife and children, just a couple days after he was brought out of a medically-induced coma and taken off a ventilator.

Visiting the U.K., Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the British Foreign Secretary that the U.S. stands together with its European partners in the face of the latest alleged poisoning attack, calling any use of chemical weapons "unacceptable under any circumstances."

Navalny's team says he has every intention of returning to Russia.

 
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https://sputniknews.com/viral/201807111066271401-novichok-vodka-reaction-apology/

https://www.asicentral.com/news/new.../wait-what-novichok-is-a-hot-brand-in-russia/

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2018...man-releases-novichok-line-cooking-oil-a61227

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Navalny 'very grateful' for Merkel visit at Berlin hospital

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Monday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited him while he was recovering in a Berlin hospital after being poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.
"I am very grateful to Chancellor Merkel for visiting me at the hospital," the anti-corruption campaigner wrote on Twitter following reports of the meeting in German media.

Встреча была, но не стоит называть ее «секретной». Скорее, частная встреча и разговор с семьей. Я очень признателен канцлеру Меркель за то, что она навестила меня в больнице https://t.co/8d8vnEe23z
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) September 28, 2020
The 44-year-old Kremlin critic was discharged from Charite hospital in Berlin last week after receiving treatment over several weeks for exposure to Novichok.

He fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August in what his allies say was a state-sanctioned attack -- labs in France, Germany and Sweden confirmed he had been poisoned

German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that Merkel had visited Navalny in what it described as a "secret" meeting at Charite hospital that underscored the Chancellor's personal commitment to Navalny's case.

READ ALSO: How Navalny case is poisoning ties between Germany and Russia

Navalny confirmed the meeting but argued the label "secret" was not accurate, saying: "Rather, a private meeting and conversation with the family."

The Kremlin has denied allegations of involvement in the poisoning and accused Western leaders of launching a disinformation campaign over the opposition leader's illness.

Russia insists medical tests carried out by doctors in Omsk found no poison in Navalny's body. It says it lacks grounds for a criminal investigation, despite international calls for a transparent probe.

Navalny's spokesperson Kira Yarmysh has said the Kremlin critic plans to return to Russia but will remain in Germany until he has recovered.
 
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I can't imagine Germany doing all this for another reason than obbey USA orders.

:lol:

Russia can blow up whole Germany, and even whole West europe, but Germany and Europeans politicians act like they ignoring this.

What a diplomatic circus.

I guess USA fears lost the control of their European puppets.
 
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I can't imagine Germany doing all this for another reason than obbey USA orders.

:lol:

Russia can blow up whole Germany, and even whole West europe, but Germany and Europeans politicians act like they ignoring this.

What a diplomatic circus.

I guess USA fears lost the control of their European puppets.
If USA is worrying about someone's life - you can be 100% sure this man is complete scum, traitor and second Juda. They have never been worried about lifes of decent people.
 
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If USA is worrying about someone's life - you can be 100% sure this man is complete scum, traitor and second Juda. They have never been worried about lifes of decent people.

Some people in west europe has the fantasy that it was happen to USSR can be repeat to modern Russia.

It's not a coincidence that Hollywood is in USA, USA has made so many real life movies (starting by 911 attacks) in the last decades for their allies, and they believed many of those big lies.

Navalny is just a unconscious actor of a another USA real life movie. The European movie-fantasy that Russia will be unarmed, divided and turned into in a western style "democracy".
 
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