On September 8, member of Alliance of Patriots Giorgi Lomia discussed the poisoning of Russian opposition-member Alexei Navalny on the program “For Everybody to Hear” of Night Studio, “Obiektivi” TV. According to him, it was confirmed that Alexei Navalny wasn’t poisoned by “Novichok”. On September 8, “Sakinformi” published the statement from one of the creators of Novichok, Leonid Rink. According to Rink, the fact that Navalny came out of the coma proves that he wasn’t poisoned by Novichok.
Giorgi Lomia, Alliance of Patriots: “It appears Navalny wasn’t poisoned by Novichok, now it has been confirmed…”
Leonid Rink: “I rule out his poisoning since he has no symptoms. Even if a concentration of 400 times less than the lethal dose was used, he would come out of a coma, but he would still have miosis (narrowing of pupils). There are no similar symptoms here.”
Giorgi Lomia’s statement as if it appeared that Navalny wasn’t poisoned by Novichok is disinformation. According to the German government, the toxicology test showed that the Russian opposition leader was poisoned by the same nerve agent as Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain in 2018.
On Wednesday, September 2, The German chancellor, Angela Merkel officially confirmedthat Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the military-grade nerve agent Novichok that initially was developed by the Soviet Union, whereas later by Russia.
Navalny’s poisoning was followed by numerous disinformative messages from Kremlin-related politicians and media. EUvsDisino compared these messages to the ones disseminated after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018.
| Skripals, 2018 | Navalny, 2020 | |
| London has no evidence of Moscow’s complicity in the Skripals’ poisoning. | There is no evidence | There is no evidence that Navalny was poisoned |
| London continues its’ anti-Russian provocation | The poisoning is a provocation | Navalny’s poisoning aims to spoil relations between Germany and Russia to stop Nord Stream 2. |
| British authorities continue massive anti-Russian propaganda. | The west is exploiting poisoning | The poisoning version is exploited by the West to impose sanctions against Moscow. |
| Poisoning was staged by the British to divert attention from “unsuccessful Brexit talks”. | The poisoning was staged | West staged a show with poisoning together with the delivery of aircraft to transport Navalny to Germany. |
| Western journalism is Russophobic and prefers fantasy over objective reporting. | Western media is “Russophobic” | Russophobic western media attempts to blame Putin of Navalny’s poisoning. |
| Alcoholism, drug addiction, and stress are the inevitable occupational diseases of a traitor. As a result – heart attacks, stroke, traffic accidents, and finally, suicide. | They did it themselves | Navalny could’ve caused his coma himself. A few days before hospitalization, he had problems with nutrition and digestion. |
| It is said that the Russians have deployed a chemical weapon of military level, but nobody is dead. | If it was Novichok, he would’ve died | The symptoms of Navalny are absolutely uncharacteristic of the symptoms caused by the use of the Novichok nerve agent. |
| Theresa May is trying to deal with her political enemies with the Skripal case. | It’s politics | Poisoning Navalny manifests the fierce political struggle in Germany. |
| Novichok which poisoned the Skripals was produced and patented in the U.S | Made in the USA | Novichok is not produced in Russia but Lugar laboratory of Georgia and the U.S. |
| Poisoning could have been carried out by the foreign special forces | Secret services | Poisoning could have been orchestrated by the western special forces |
| May’s government has ignored the attempt by Russia to cooperate in the investigation. | No cooperation | Berlin refuses to cooperate in a manner that would verify the statements it made. |
Source: EUvs.Disinfo
On August 20, 2020, Alexei Navalny fell ill on a plane. The plane made the emergency landing in Omsk. Navalny has been treated in the Acute Poisoning Department of Omsk Hospital for two days. Initially, hospital doctors were against his flight to Germany citing his unstable condition. They insisted that no poisonous substances had been detected in Navalny’s body when he was under their care. On 22 August, Alexei Navalny was airlifted from Omsk, Siberia to the Charité clinic in Berlin
Western politicians’ responses
Angela Merkel called Navalny’s poisoning an attempted murder and stated that the investigations have raised many important questions that only the Russian authorities can answer and to which they have no answer.
UK Prime minister Boris Johnson called the findings outrageous and said that the Russian government must explain what actually happened to Navalny.
The White House called the attack completely reprehensible. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called it an outrageous and brazen attempt on Navalny’s life.
According to the official statement of the EU, the use of such chemical nerve agent is completely unacceptable and a breach of international law.
Per Russia’s statement, no evidence indicates Alexei Navalny’s poisoning. According to Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte, Putin has assured him that Russia intends to investigate what has happened and is prepared to set up a committee of inquiry and simultaneously collaborate with the German colleagues.
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