MOSCOW — Vladlen Los sat in a chair outside Room 239 of the Xander Hotel. It was midmorning on Aug. 20 in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The lawyer Los was determined that no one get inside the room that his colleague, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, had left hours before.
Washington Post: How Alexei Navalny’s aides got crucial poisoning evidence out of Russia
A poster with a picture of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with the headline "poisoned" is seen outside the Russian embassy on Unter den Linden in Berlin during an anti-government protest on Sept. 23, 2020.