![FILE - In this Saturday, July 20, 2019 file photo Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking to a crowd during a political protest in Moscow, Russia. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack and poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, the German government said Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020 citing new test results. Navalny, a politician and corruption investigator who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on Aug 20 and was taken to a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk after the plane made an emergency landing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/O5HDUGUSA5AEZCWF5NW4BRQ2SY.jpg?smart=true&auth=ce20c1c167034530463bdd143be2ec969ebd889679666e440b8d2c245be0a2a3&width=400&height=225)
The German government said Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. AP
The German government said Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. AP
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny poisoned with Novichok
Same nerve agent was used in UK attack on Russian former spy Sergei Skripal that was blamed on Moscow
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02 September, 2020