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Disinfo: Euro-Atlantic powers want to use Navalny’s case to foil Nord Stream 2

Summary

Behind the [Alexy] Navalny case are Euro-Atlantic interests aimed at promoting anti-Russian policy.

It is clear that what the Euro-Atlantic powers are interested in is not clarifying the situation around Navalny, but rather foiling the “Nord Stream 2” gas pipeline between Russia and Europe.

Disproof

This is a pro-Kremlin conspiracy theory aimed at linking the case of Alexei Navalny with the Nord Stream 2 project. See a very similar case here (although in this case, the United States is accused alone).

A prominent Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny fell ill during a flight and the plane had to make an emergency landing in Omsk. Doctors there said he was in a coma and they were trying to save his life. Since then he has been transferred to Berlin and is receiving treatment at Berlin's Charité Hospital. The German Federal government said that toxicological tests provided  “unequivocal evidence of a chemical nerve agent of the Novichok group” in the blood samples of Alexei Navalny.

The European Union condemned the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in the strongest possible terms.

Read similar disinformation messages alleging that Americans are recouping their long-term investment in Navalny, the West has an interest in the death of Navalny to launch a new wave of sanctions against Russia, or that US used Navalny case to block Russian vaccine against COVID-19, or that political scandal in Austria was a CIA operation to stop the construction of Nord Stream 2.

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  • Reported in: Issue 215
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 10/10/2020
  • Language/target audience: Arabic
  • Country: Russia
  • Keywords: Nord Stream 2, Alexei Navalny, Encircling Russia, Anti-Russian, Conspiracy theory, Europe

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