At the time of writing, Alexei Navalny is still fighting for his life, after apparently being poisoned as he left Tomsk. For many, this must have been a “Kremlin hit,” but the uncomfortable truth is that under Vladimir Putin, political murder is no longer a monopoly of the state.
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German army emergency personnel load into their ambulance the stretcher that was used to transport Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on August 22, 2020 at Berlin's Charite hospital, where Navalny will be treated after his medical evacuation to Germany following a suspected poisoning. Navalny was critically ill in a hospital in Siberia after a suspected poisoning, a small Berlin-based NGO has been leading the charge to bring him from hospital in the city of Omsk to Germany for treatment.
