Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he can breathe unaided a month after he was poisoned with Novichok Navalny said he was ‘able to breathe on my own all day’ a month after poisoning Berlin hospital doctors say the Putin critic’s condition ‘continues to improve’ Navalny was taken ill in August in what Germany says … Read more
The German government has said specialist laboratories in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. A German military laboratory previously confirmed the substance was present in his samples. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has also … Read more
Two allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navanly won local parliament seats Monday in the Siberian city of Tomsk where he was allegedly poisoned last month, according to early poll results. Andrei Fateev and Ksenia Fadeeva came out on top in two constituencies, while the ruling United Russia party topped the polls overall in Tomsk … Read more
The wife of a police officer who nearly died after investigating the Salisbury poisonings said ‘actions speak louder than words’ in response to a tweet by the Prime Minister. Boris Johnson joined world leaders in demanding answers from Russia amid claims Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned using Novichok – which was also used in the … Read more
The huge damage to Boris Johnson’s reputation from the coronavirus crisis was laid bare today after another humiliating U-turn. A poll for MailOnline found 39 per cent of the public have a more negative view of the PM due to the shambolic handling of the pandemic. Meanwhile, just 21 per cent said their opinion had … Read more
Germany said today it has ‘unequivocal proof’ that Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. Tests carried out at a military laboratory found evidence of the Soviet-era chemical weapon that was used to attack Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018. Navalny remains in a coma in a Berlin hospital nearly two weeks … Read more
German hospital treating poisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny has asked for British help as he remains in a coma Doctors called upon Government’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory The Wiltshire laboratory led the investigation into the Salisbury attack in 2018 Alexei Navalny’s supporters suspect he was poisoned when he drank a cup of tea Medics … Read more
German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have contacted Bulgarian colleagues amid suspicions he was poisoned with the same mysterious toxin used on an arms dealer. ‘Obviously, they consider it possible that the same or very similar substances were used,’ reported news magazine Der Spiegel. Doctors at Berlin’s Charité hospital – where Navalny remains … Read more
A Kremlin-linked businessman known as ‘Putin’s Chef’ has vowed to financially ruin poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in a Berlin hospital, as Britain backs calls for an independent investigation. Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose company Konkord has laid on catering at the Kremlin, said that if Navalny recovers he’ll go after him for £885,000 … Read more
The German government has said it is ‘fairly likely’ that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned. ‘We are dealing with a patient who it is fairly likely was poisoned,’ Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert told a press conference today. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will survive but be ‘incapacitated for months’ after he allegedly … Read more