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Kremlin Rejects European Claim Navalny Died of Poisoning
Five European nations found epibatidine toxin in Navalny's body, pointing to Russian state involvement; Kremlin denies and calls claims baseless, with Britain considering new sanctions.
- As Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, the Kremlin rejected claims by five European countries that Navalny was poisoned, calling them 'biased and unfounded.'
- Collaborative laboratory work confirmed epibatidine in Alexei Navalny’s samples, and the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office judged it highly likely caused his death.
- Britain's foreign office said `We hold it responsible for his death`, while Yvette Cooper, Britain's Foreign Secretary, said Sunday they are considering `increasing sanctions on the Russian regime`; Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, said Washington was not disputing the European assessment.
- The U.K. filed a report with the Organisation on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons alleging breaches of the Chemical Weapons Convention, challenging Russia's account that Navalny died of natural causes.
- Given Navalny was also targeted in 2020, experts note epibatidine can be synthetically produced, while Lyudmila Navalnaya said, `This confirms what we knew from the very beginning. We knew that our son did not simply die in prison, he was murdered.
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What We Know About the Frog Toxin That Killed Navalny
Investigators in five European countries say Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death was caused by a toxin found in frogs like the Anthony's poison arrow frog and the Phantasmal poison frog—species normally found in the wild in South America, not around Siberian prison colonies. Epibatidine . The BBC reports that...
Russia denies European allegation that Kremlin poisoned Navalny
Russia on Monday denied allegations it killed former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2024 with a poison derived from a dart frog toxin. “Naturally, we do not accept such accusations. We disagree with them. We consider them biased and not based on anything. And we strongly reject them,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters. Russia’s response comes two years to the day that Navalny died in a Siberian pen…
Moscow, Russia.- The Kremlin described Monday as "unsubstantiated" the accusations of a report from five European countries that claims that the opponent Alexei Navalni died poisoned by a "rare toxin" when he was in a Russian prison, exactly two years ago. The anti-corruption activist who opposed for years Russian President Vladimir Putin and the offensive against Ukraine launched in 2022, died in prison on February 16, 2024, at age 47. United K…
Kremlin rejects claim it poisoned Navalny with dart frog toxin | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
MOSCOW >> The Kremlin on Monday flatly rejected accusations from five European countries that the Russian state had killed Alexei Navalny two years ago using toxin from poison dart frogs, but his widow said the truth had finally been proven.
Russian opponent Alexei Navalni died intoxicated at the age of 47, on February 16, 2024, by a deadly substance secreted by Ecuador’s dart frog, while in detention in a penal colony in Siberia. The toxin, called epibatidine, is naturally present in the skin of the amphibian that inhabits areas of South America, but can also be produced in laboratories. On Saturday, five European countries — the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands and…
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