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On December 17, during his annual year-end news conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed recent reports that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) poisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny with the military-grade chemical weapon Novichok.That state-sponsored crime was revealed in an investigation jointly conducted by U.K.-based investigative website Bellingcat and Russia’s investigative website The Insider, in cooperation with Germany’s Der Spiegel and CNN.Commenting on the investigation, Putin claimed Russian security services would have finished the job.""This is not some kind of investigation; this is the legalization of materials from the American special services. That means in this case the patient of the Berlin clinic [Navalny] is supported by US intelligence services
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