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Poisoning — Russia
The nerve agent used to poison Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, suggesting he was poisoned there and not at the airport as first thought, his team said on Thursday [17 Sep 2020]. Navalny fell violently ill on a domestic flight in Russia last month [August 2020]and was subsequently airlifted to Berlin for treatment. Laboratories in Germany, France, and Sweden have established he was poisoned by a