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On August 20, Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny suddenly fell severely ill during a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow. Witnesses described how the dissident collapsed in the lavatory of the plane and was screaming in pain as crew members tried to render aid.After an emergency landing in Omsk, Navalny was seen being transferred off the plane unconscious, and he was later admitted to a hospital for what doctors initially claimed was ingestion of a toxic substance. On August 21, Russian doctors agreed to let Navalny be flown to Germany for treatment.While still in a coma at Berlin’s Charite hospital, German doctors determined that Navalny had been poisoned by a chemical warfare agent commonly known as Novichok, a family of nerve weapons created by the Soviet Union. Laboratories in France and Sweden later independently verified the German findings, as did the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Despite this, Russia continues to officially deny involvement in the poisoning and has promoted multiple contradictory counter-narratives. On November 12, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov put forward a new explanation, saying Navalny could have been poisoned either in Germany or en route from Siberia. We have all grounds to believe that everything
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