SHORT PROFILE of Alexei Navalny as widow claims laboratory tests show he was poisoned
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2340484
SHORT PROFILE of Alexei Navalny as widow claims laboratory tests show he was poisoned
- Title: SHORT PROFILE of Alexei Navalny as widow claims laboratory tests show he was poisoned
- Date: 13th April 2023
- Summary: Navalny was left in a coma in August 2020. His spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on social media Navalny was in intensive care and on a ventilator in a Siberian hospital. Laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden have established Navalny was poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent, a poison developed by the Soviet military, though Russia denies this and says it has seen no evidenc
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- Keywords: Funeral KREMLIN NAVALNY OPPOSITION POLITICS PRISON PROTEST PUTIN RUSSIA
- Location: VARIOUS
- City: VARIOUS
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA004467113042023RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that Western laboratory tests on samples obtained from Alexei showed that he was poisoned.
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