Two years after being poisoned, Alexei Navalny reappeared: “This exposed the Putin regime”

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny spoke again this Saturday, two years after his poisoning. And he claimed that this near-fatal attack and subsequent arrest ultimately exposed Russian President Vladimir Putin and his regime.

“The whole situation exposed Putin and his system to such an extent, it showed not only the criminal character but also the dysfunctionality and failure of his regime, which influenced the entire Russian political system”, Navalny underlined in a letter sent from prison and disseminated on the social networks of its supporters.

The opponent, sentenced last March to 9 years in prison for alleged fraud, assures that at the end of January 2021 the system has abandoned all concealment to become a “repressive and authoritarian” regime. without restrictions”.

“For the second day I celebrate my second birthday. The day they tried to kill me, but for some reason I didn’t die,” Navalny directs her letter.

The opponent confirms that the Russian authorities have so far not initiated criminal proceedings for poisoning with a substance for military use known as “novichok” which nearly cost him his life.

He assures that he does not understand the position of the authorities who say that there has been no attack with the “novichok” or that he has been poisoned with that substance, but by the western secret services for provocative purposes.

“The authorities at the highest level, starting with Putin, firmly and simultaneously defend these two versions,” adds Navalny.

Chemical weapons

The opponent points out that “almost all members of the assassin group” who tried to kill him have been found and settled.

On December 14, 2020, nearly four months after the opposition leader fell into a coma, digital media Bellingcat, its partners Der Spiegel and CNN, along with Navalny, reported that a command of chemical weapons experts was involved in his poisoning.

“They are all members of the FSB (Federal Security Service). It has been shown that they have participated in several failed poisoning attempts (Dmitri Bykov, Vladimir Kara-Murzá) and several murders,” adds Navalny in a letter published this Saturday.

According to the opponent, none of the FSB agents were brought to justice.

“Perhaps the exception is Konstantin Kudriatsev, the unfortunate chemist who told me all the details of the attack by telephone. He disappeared and it seems that they simply killed him,” writes the opposition leader.

Navalny spoke to Kudriatsev posing as an adviser to the Russian Security Council and posted the audio of the phone conversation on social media.

poisoned

On 20 August 2020 the leader of the opposition collapsed during a flight from Siberia to Moscow, forcing an emergency landing in the city of Omsk, where he received treatment in a local hospital.

The Russian doctors who treated him said they found no traces of poisoning and attributed his condition to metabolic problems.

Two days later, at the request of his family and his collaborators, Navalni was transferred to Berlin, where he was treated at the university hospital La Charité, where he arrived in critical condition.

Source: EFE

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