DISINFO: Navalny might have been poisoned as a result of a conflict with his partners
SUMMARY
The poisoning of Alexei Navalny might have been a result of a conflict with the blogger’s companion Vladimir Ashurkov and other Western partners.
RESPONSE
An unfounded conspiracy theory, and a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative on the Navalny poisoning and the alleged insignificance of the activist. On August 20 the prominent Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny fell ill during a flight and the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Omsk, where doctors said that he was in a coma and that they were trying to save his life. Since then he has been transferred to Berlin and is receiving treatment at Berlin's Charite Hospital. On September 3, 2020, the German government published a statement that described how a military laboratory, certified by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), had found traces of the Novichok nerve agent in samples taken from Navalny. The European Union condemned the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in the strongest possible terms. Read similar cases claiming that the Navalny was not poisoned by novichok and Russian secret services are not involved that theAlexei Navalny, originally an anti-Russian project, was poisoned by his sponsors and that the West has an interest in the death of Navalny to launch a new wave of sanctions against Russia.