The suspected poisoning of Russia's best-known opposition leader Alexey Navalny is the latest to happen to a long line of Kremlin opponents.
's best-known opposition leader Alexey Navalny is the latest to happen to a long line of Kremlin opponents.
"You’ll agree that in many country in the world, everyday a lot of poisonings happen,” Peskov said, saying it was necessary to look at every case individually. In this file photo taken on September 29, 2019 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks during a demonstration in Moscow. - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on August 25, 2020, the United States is"deeply concerned" about the apparent poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and urged a full investigation.
Boris Voldarsky, a former officer from the Soviet military intelligence agency, the GRU, who has written a book on the KGB poison program has written there is one constant in the lab's products. In this file photo taken on August 21, 2020 a woman holding a placard reading"A hospital is not a prison" stands outside Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1 where Alexei Navalny was admitted after he fell ill in what his spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning, in Omsk.
The choice of poison though usually means the involvement of Russia's security services, whether acting for the state or corruptly for others.
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