At this point, Western reporters covering the story are either completely high on the Kool-Aid or they are going to intense lengths to suppress their skepticism, because so much of the narrative simply doesn’t add up. The opposition figure’s condition when he was first hospitalized, in Siberia, was clearly very …
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Berlin insists its Bundeswehr [military] laboratory found traces of poison from the Novichok family in the anti-corruption campaigner’s system. Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the “attack” and demanded an explanation from Russia. But the scientists behind its development – Leonid Rink and Vladimir Uglev – have dismissed the German claims. …
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Berlin added that it will provide the new information to European Union partners and other international organizations. However, the Russian government says it has not been informed. The ‘Novichok’-like substance is from the same class as that allegedly used to poison Russian-born British intelligence agent Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, in Salisbury in 2018. …
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