The leader of the Russian opposition, Alexei Navalny, marked today two years of imprisonment in penal colonies in Russia after being convicted of several crimes of corruption in a trial considered by many in the West to be a sham and a political effort on the part of the Kremlin to silence him.
Navalni delivered a speech from prison through his assistants in which he wrote: "August 20. The day I celebrate my second birthday. The day I was murdered, but I was not murdered for some reason. So just for memory, stating dry facts: a criminal investigation for attempted murder was not was opened, and one is what Putin is lying about there. There was no official investigation."
Navalny went on to describe the case of his poisoning that took place in 2020 and in which he almost ended his life: "Until now I did not understand the position of the official representatives of Russia: "Navalni was not poisoned with 'Novichok', he went into a coma by himself"; or: "Navalni was poisoned Using 'Novichok', but not us, but Western intelligence agencies to create a provocation." Government officials, starting with Putin himself, take two versions at the same time. All the participants of the assassination squad have been found and identified. All of them - employees of the Russian FSB .
It has been proven that behind them are other failed attempts to poison the writer and essayist Dmitry Bykov, the politician Vladimir Kara-Morza] and how successful it is likely that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
"Not a single member of the squad was prosecuted. With the possible exception of Konstantin Kudryavtsev, the man who was in charge of making sure that the Novichok-smeared Navichk underwear was thoroughly cleaned, the sleazy chemist who told me the details of the assassination over the phone. He disappeared and seemed to have been eliminated. Since I survived, the Kremlin caught a glimpse of He first put me in prison for three and a half years, and then for nine," Navalny wrote.
"This whole affair exposed so much both Putin and the system, so presented their criminality and the failure of his rule, that they affected the entire political system in Russia. The system threw off any mask, and by the end of January 2021 it became repressive and authoritarian without any slag. This is what What happens when Novichok is carelessly applied to underwear," the opposition member concluded his speech.
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