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  • 2020-12-29 (xsd:date)
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  • and then later released an official statement. "The so-called ‘investigation’ posted on the Internet by A. Navalny about the alleged actions taken against him is a planned provocation aimed at discrediting the FSB of Russia and its employees, the implementation of which would not have been possible without the organizational and technical support of foreign special services," the statement read. The FSB said the phone call was a forgery. The claim that Navalny needed help from intelligence services to conduct the phone call is misleading. There was nothing about the phone call that would have required the help of special services. While Navalny used more advanced software, similar or identical versions have been used by pranksters around the world, and apps for prank calls are among the most popular mobile applications.According to Bellingcat, Navalny was using an internet-based phone program that allowed him to alter how the number would show up on another phone’s caller ID.The FSB's attempted damage control mirrors similar claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin made regarding the Bellingcat investigation during his annual press conference on December 17. Putin claimed the investigation was a legalization of materials from the American special services (en)
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  • On December 21, the open-source intelligence investigative group Bellingcat released a video recording of a phone call that the group said confirmed the Russian Federal Security Service’s involvement in the poisoning of Alexey Navalny. Bellingcat said the revelations from the call verified the findings of its own investigation published a week earlier. In the video, Navalny, posing as Maxim Ustinov (en)
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