Alexei Navalny: Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok

Samples taken from Navalny were tested at a military laboratory and showed "unequivocal proof" the Russian opposition leader was poisoned with an agent from the Novichok group.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Mr Navalny was the victim of an attempted murder and there were now "serious questions that only the Russian government can and must answer".
"Someone tried to silence him and in the name of the whole German government I condemn that in the strongest terms."
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Of course nobody knows who poisoned Navalny or what their motive could have been but I suspect there was likely some sightseeing tourists on the plane off to look at historic church spires somewhere , they've done it before.

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I wonder who could be Putin poison in his drink?

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Is anyone surprised ?

Par for the course.

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I think it was "putin" in his tea at the airport.

Quite the sick game of Cluedo really.

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"Novichok" is an invention of English bio-chemists from the laboratory in Porton Down. There was no such program in the USSR.

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I thought Novichok was a binary chemical weapon developed by Soviet Russia in 1971.

Part of a Soviet program codenamed FOLIANT.

That's not to say we have not got our hands on the stuff all the same.

"Novichok" is an invention of English bio-chemists from the laboratory in Porton Down. There was no such program in the USSR.

Of course it is RussianTroll.

The Novichok group of molecules are nerve agents developed by the Soviets from the late 1970’s – but never produced on a large scale, at least to the best of public knowledge. They are referred to as third generation nerve agents to indicate their production as a follow-on to the G-series agents such as sarin (also referred to as “GB”) developed in Germany prior to WWII, and the V-series agents (such as VX gas) first developed by the UK in the 1950’s.

The name “Novichok” translates colloquially from Russian as “newbies”.
www.scientificamerican.com...

Of course it is.

originally posted by: andy06shake
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I thought Novichok was a binary chemical weapon developed by Soviet Russia in 1971.

Part of a Soviet program codenamed FOLIANT.

That's not to say we have not got our hands on the stuff all the same.

Yes you are right. In the 90s, the United States allocated $ 5 million to Uzbekistan, where the Foliant was developed, received all the technology, dismantled all the equipment and took all the protocols. Later all this was transferred to the English laboratory in Porton Down, where there was further development and production. Under UN supervision, Russia has destroyed all its stocks of chemical and biological weapons, which is reflected in international protocols. The USA and England refused to do so.
Now the network of biological laboratories in the United States and England is located around the world, including in the former Soviet republics - Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
There are no chemical and biological weapons in Russia, but the United States and Britain have an abundance of them.

The Pentagon Bio-weapons

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Business as usual for the Putin regime.

Discussed earlier here
German investigators determine Alexei Navalny was poisoned

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