DISINFO: Russian expert uncovers Germany's mistake on Navalny; Novichok is a mythical poison invented in the UK
SUMMARY
The case of the alleged poisoning of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is crumbling. A Russian expert found a serious calculation mistake by Germany, whose government will have to answer many questions in relation to its provocative accusations. Navalny’s entourage doesn’t have symptoms of poisoning other than a hangover, they didn’t think of this detail. It seems that the German authorities will have to explain to Russian authorities how a stable patient was “poisoned”, and with “Novichok”, no less. // It has been alleged that Russian dissident was poisoned with a nerve agent of the Novichok group. Novichok is a mythical poison invented in Great Britain during its anti-Russian campaign.
RESPONSE
The use of a chemical nerve agent of the Novichok group against Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has been established beyond any doubt by a specialist Bundeswehr laboratory. The allegation that Germany’s claims must be false because Navalny’s entourage didn’t showed any symptom is absurd: preliminary evidence points that Navalny was almost certainly poisoned after drinking a tea cup that contained the nerve agent, which easily explains why nobody else around him fell ill. This is part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on this incident, which follows the same playbook that the one deployed after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daugther in Salisbury in 2018, a case where there is strong evidence of the involvement of Russian intelligence operatives and high-level Russian officials. See other examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives on Alexei Navalny’s poisoning in our database, such as claims that only caffeine and alcohol were found in his blood, that the US wanted to use it to block Nord Stream 2 and Russia’s vaccine against coronavirus, that the West hopes that he dies to have an excuse for new sanctions, or that Western accusations about Navalny’s case are as false as they were about Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko. This disinformation message appeared in the same article as the claims that “Novichok is a mythical poison invented in UK during its anti-Russian campaign”