Putin critic Alexei Navalny is fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital. Navalny started feeling ill on a plane returning to Moscow from Tomsk in Siberia. He was carried off the plane on a stretcher after it made an emergency landing
If confirmed, it would be the latest in a long series of poisonings and suspected poisonings of people who have fallen out with the Kremlin, which denies settling scores with its foes by murdering them.
“We assume that Alexei was poisoned with something mixed into his tea. It was the only thing that he drank in the morning. Alexei is now unconscious,” Yarmysh said. “Putin is scared,” said an EU diplomat, who declined to be named. “He is sending a message to his own people not to try do at home what they see on TV from Belarus.”
They include Sergei Skripal, a former double agent poisoned with a nerve agent in 2018 in Salisbury, England, and Alexander Litvinenko, a Kremlin critic who died in London in 2006 after drinking green tea laced with polonium-210. Navalny, a 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption activist, has served many stints in jail for organising anti-Kremlin protests and has been attacked in the street by pro-government activists. He has published investigations into what he says are examples of official corruption, with his videos garnering millions of views.
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