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The Times: Kremlin made a second attempt to poison Navalny in botched assassination

By The Times.

Published Dec. 13, 2020 at 11:57 am

This file photo taken on Sept. 23, 2020, shows a mock offer of "Novichok Tea" in front of an effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin outside the Russian embassy on Unter den Linden avenue in Berlin.

Photo by AFP

Alexei Navalny, the most prominent opposition figure in Russia, was on a flight from Siberia to Moscow when he started to feel ill. Sweating, disorientated, and filled with a sense of impending doom, he collapsed in the aisle saying: “I’m dying, I’ve been poisoned.”