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Half of Russians Skeptical Toward Navalny Poisoning – Poll Updated: Dec. 24, 2020 European scientists established that Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Soviet-designed Novichok group. Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP
Around half of Russians believe that Western secret agents orchestrated leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny s poisoning or that he wasn t poisoned at all, according to an independent survey published Thursday.
Navalny fell into a coma on Aug. 20 on a flight from Siberia to Moscow. He was flown for treatment to Germany two days later, where European scientists established that he was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Soviet-designed Novichok group.
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As charges and counter-charges fly, relations between Russia and the West continue to deteriorate.
New details and fresh questions continue to emerge in the scandal over the poisoning of a high-profile Kremlin opponent.
Last week, CNN and investigative journalism group Bellingcat jointly published a report claiming that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had been tailing Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny since 2017. Through phone records, flight manifests, and leaked government databases, the report pieced together a timeline of how an “elite FSB unit” stalked Navalny throughout August and tried to poison him with a lethal substance. One of the report’s authors, CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, confronted a senior member of this FSB team Oleg Tayakin at his Moscow apartment. “Was it your team that poisoned Navalny?,” queried Ward as Tayakin slammed the door shut.