DISINFO: Europe evacuated its secret agent Navalny; the poisoning is fake

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DISINFO: Europe evacuated its secret agent Navalny; the poisoning is fake

SUMMARY

If Germany had any tests, they probably would have shown them already. But most probably, there is nothing at all. There was no poisoning, only one special operation happened: Europe evacuated its agent Navalny, because obviously he is already unneeded in Russia. He is very weak and cannot attract the attention of anyone except on Twitter. He is not very serious as an opponent. They need a strong character, not him. The investigation hasn’t found the slightest trace of poison. So if Navalny was really poisoned, it was not done in Russia. Then, it is necessary to “discuss with Germany”.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative on the Navalny poisoning and the alleged insignificance of the activist. Anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny has long been the most prominent face of Russian opposition to President Vladimir Putin. His candidacy in the 2018 presidential election was banned by authorities over his conviction by a Russian court of embezzlement, which bars him from running for office. He has been arrested and imprisoned several times during his political career. No evidence is provided to prove that Alexey Navalny was a Western spy. It should be noted that the opposite narrative, that the Anti-Corruption Foundation( FBK) is a Kremlin project and that Navalny is an agent of Russian secret services is also pure speculation and isn't based on facts. 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.

Disclaimer

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