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leave behind to the russian people? >> oh, come on, daniel, no, no way. like you're making movie for the case of my death. like, again, i am ready to answer your question, but, let it be another movie, movie number two. like let's make a trailer out of this movie and in the case i would be killed, let's make a boring movie of memory. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ >> alexei navalny is stepping back into another showdown with the kremlin. >> what to do with navalny presents a conundrum for the kremlin. let him go and risk looking weak, or lock him up knowing could turn him into...

Come on, poisoned. i don't believe it. like he is back. this is alexei. putin is supposed to be not so stupid to use this novichok. his wording, his expletive. his international. if you want to kill someone, just shoot him, jesus christ, like real alexei. it's impossible to believe it. it's kind of stupid. the whole idea of poisoning with a chemical weapon. what the [ bleep ]? this is why it's so smart because even reasonable people, like they refuse to believe, come on, poisoned. seriously. [ speaking foreign language ]

The russian media didn't find anything, and german investigators didn't have the jurisdiction, so we realized there's nobody was going to actually actively investigate this. unless we jump into this. we knew that the poison was novichok, and novichok we had proven in the previous investigation is only manufactured in this facility called the signal institute. the signal institute in moscow works under the guise of a r & d center that develops advanced form of sports, nutrition drinks. that's the legend, and yet they employ for this work 12 scientists whose only experience and background is in ...

Milt grader in of agent novichok. >> the seriousness of novichok is starts switching off the nerve connectors in your body one by one. if it goes properly it will turn off your body, and then within hours any trace it will disappear so you'll always forever look like it was a natural death. >> this is why it appears to be the preferred form of killing for people whose death will be in the public scrutiny such as navalny. there was a lot of pressure for us to start investigating. media partners in russia reached out to us and said can you help? we looked at it and thought there's no hope in hel...

Poisoning people with novichok. so what we did is we bought from the russian black market. the phone records for the head of the signal institute. we looked at numbers that only appear just before the poisoning of navalny, and those were suspicious, but once we have a suspicious number, you go through a number of russian apps that allow you to see how that phone number is listed in other people's phone books, so, for example, i put in my number, and it would show up as kristol the journalist from bellingcat because somebody would have put my name into their phone book and that description woul...