A bottle with traces of poison: a new version of Navalny's poisoning has appeared

The publication “Project” and the associates of Alexei Navalny put forward a version that the politician could have been poisoned with Novichok even before traveling to the Tomsk airport. According to their information, traces of poison were found on a bottle of water, which FBK employees found in a hotel room in Tomsk and handed over to Berlin doctors, writes Air force.

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What Proekt and FBK reported

As stated in the investigation published by the Project, Navalny drank water from a plastic bottle, on which Novichok was later found, at the Xander Hotel in Tomsk.

When Navalny's associates, who remained in Tomsk, learned that the plane with the politician had made an emergency landing in Omsk, they immediately returned to the room to collect possible evidence.

“Time allowed us to do this, because Navalny’s room had not yet been given to new residents, and cleaning of the hotel slowly begins just after 10-11 o’clock,” writes “Proekt.” “As a result, several items that Navalny could have used that morning were taken from there. Among them is a drunk bottle of “Holy Spring” brand water.

These items, as the Project managed to find out, were brought to Berlin and handed over to doctors by one of the employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Maria Pevchikh - the same one whom the Russian investigation called evading testification.

“Since the beginning of September, Pevchikh has generally become the main target of attacks in the media and telegram channels associated with the Russian authorities: she was accused of having an intimate relationship with Navalny and that she could have poisoned him. Now, after the situation with the bottle has been clarified, this attack is easy to explain: in fact, it was Pevchikh’s forced march across the border that made it possible to prove that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok,” the publication concludes.

Simultaneously with the publication of the “Project,” a post appeared on Navalny’s own Instagram, which also talks about the collection of evidence in a hotel room and concludes: the politician was not poisoned at the airport or on the plane.

“Two weeks later, it was on the bottle from the Tomsk issue that the German laboratory discovered traces of Novichok. And then two more laboratories that took tests from Alexey confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with him. Now we understand: this [poisoning] was done before he left his room to go to the airport,” Navalny’s associates said.

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The first mention of the bottle

For the first time, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported on September 4 that traces of a substance from the Novichok group were found not only in Navalny’s blood, urine and skin, but also on the bottle from which he drank.

The publication of the publication said that the container was saved and handed over to Berlin doctors by Navalny's relatives, and traces of the poisonous substance could be on the bottle, since the politician drank from it already being poisoned.

The newspaper Die Zeit wrote on September 9 that experts found traces of Novichok on Navalny’s hands and on the neck of the bottle from which he drank water.

Prior to that, Navalny's associates suggested that the politician could have poisoned the tea he drank in a coffee shop at the Tomsk airport. As the press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmysh, who accompanied him on the trip, noted, he did not have breakfast at the hotel in the morning and felt good.

Der Spiegel is one of the main sources of information about Navalny’s treatment in Berlin. The magazine, in particular, reported that the Charité clinic asked the German Army laboratory for help with Navalny’s analysis.

The fact that the conclusion about the poisoning of the Russian oppositionist with Novichok was made by specialists from the Bundeswehr laboratory was later officially stated by the German authorities.

In another article Der Spiegel (dated September 11), it was reported that the German authorities had come to the conclusion that the people who attempted to assassinate Navalny were counting on the fact that he would die on the plane. The life of the oppositionist was saved only thanks to the quick reaction of the pilots who made the decision to urgently land in Omsk, and the doctors who injected him with atropine, the newspaper noted.

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The Russian side insists that in the analyzes that were taken from Navalny in the Omsk hospital, no traces of any toxic substances were found, therefore there are no grounds for initiating a criminal case.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• On the morning of August 20, during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Alexei Navalny, felt sick on the plane. The liner made an emergency landing in Omsk, where Navalny was hospitalized in the emergency hospital No. 1, in the toxic intensive care unit. There the politician fell into a coma.
• Ex-FSB officer and opposition politician Gennady Gudkov toldwhy Navalny's associates and other politicians call the version of the involvement of the special services a priority, as well as how and with what the oppositionist could have been poisoned.
• August 21, the wife of Alexei Navalny Julia signed permission to transport her husband for treatment in Germany. On the morning of August 22, Navalny taken by plane to Berlin... He was still in a coma.
• The clinic where Navalny was taken confirmed the assumptions about his poisoning... Clinical studies have indicated a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors.
• Transportation of an opposition politician to Germany on a special medical plane paid for by Russian businessman Boris Ziminwho now lives in the United States.
• In the United States Department of Commerce сообщилиthat Washington has good reason to believe that the research institutes (SRIs) of the Russian Defense Ministry are involved in the development of chemical and biological weapons.
• September 4th German laboratory found traces of Novichok in Navalny's skin, blood and urine samples.
• On September 7, the Charite clinic, where Alexei Navalny is located, released a new message: politics brought out of an artificial coma and began to gradually disconnect from the ventilator.
• On September 10, it became known that Navalny completely recovered, memory and speech returned to him.
• September 15 politician for the first time since poisoning posted a photo on Instagram. The New York Times writes that he intends to return to Russia.

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