Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he can now breathe unaided a month after he was allegedly poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. ‘Hello, this is Navalny,’ he said in a post on Instagram, appearing with his family in the Berlin hospital where he was flown for treatment after falling ill. ‘Yesterday I was able … 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 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
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
Kremlin-linked businessman dubbed ‘Putin’s chef’ vows to financially ruin poisoned Alexei Navalny and ‘strip him of his clothes and shoes’ Yevgeny Prigozhin is boss of Konkord catering which has hosted Kremlin events He is also allegedly a backer of Wagner, a private army of mercenaries ‘The Chef’ vowed to go after Navlny for £885k that he … 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
‘Poisoned’ Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny is visited by his wife and an aide as bosses at hospital in Germany say he is stable in a coma Alexei Navalny is in a coma but ‘stable’, Charite hospital in Berlin has confirmed The Russian opposition leader is feared to have drunk tea laced with poison The politician … Read more
A plane carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital on Saturday. Images taken from the tarmac of an airport in the Siberian city of Omsk show Navalny being lifted into a private air ambulance – which was chartered to to fly him to … Read more