Disinfo: Russian expert uncovers Germany's mistake on Navalny; Novichok is a mythical poison invented in the UK

Summary

The case of the alleged poisoning of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is crumbling. A Russian expert found a serious calculation mistake by Germany, whose government will have to answer many questions in relation to its provocative accusations. Navalny’s entourage doesn’t have symptoms of poisoning other than a hangover, they didn’t think of this detail. It seems that the German authorities will have to explain to Russian authorities how a stable patient was “poisoned”, and with “Novichok”, no less. // It has been alleged that Russian dissident was poisoned with a nerve agent of the Novichok group. Novichok is a mythical poison invented in Great Britain during its anti-Russian campaign.

Disproof

The use of a chemical nerve agent of the Novichok group against Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has been established beyond any doubt by a specialist Bundeswehr laboratory. The allegation that Germany’s claims must be false because Navalny’s entourage didn’t showed any symptom is absurd: preliminary evidence points that Navalny was almost certainly poisoned after drinking a tea cup that contained the nerve agent, which easily explains why nobody else around him fell ill. This is part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on this incident, which follows the same playbook that the one deployed after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daugther in Salisbury in 2018, a case where there is strong evidence of the involvement of Russian intelligence operatives and high-level Russian officials. See other examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives on Alexei Navalny’s poisoning in our database, such as claims that only caffeine and alcohol were found in his blood, that the US wanted to use it to block Nord Stream 2 and Russia’s vaccine against coronavirus, that the West hopes that he dies to have an excuse for new sanctions, or that Western accusations about Navalny’s case are as false as they were about Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko. This disinformation message appeared in the same article as the claims that “Novichok is a mythical poison invented in UK during its anti-Russian campaign”

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  • Reported in: Issue 211
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 03/09/2020
  • Outlet language(s) Spanish
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Germany, Russia
  • Keywords: novichok, Alexei Navalny
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Disproof

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Disproof

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Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the Belarus protests and about protests in post-communist countries in general, presenting them as being organised and controlled from abroad. Neither in the text nor elsewhere is there any evidence that foreign forces are involved in the protests in Belarus. Large-scale protests began in Minsk on August 9 against the results of the presidential election, and then in other cities. People revolted against what they call election fraud but also against the aggressiveness of the police, who arrested and ill-treated hundreds of protestors. Ukraine's foreign minister Dmitro Kuleba reacted to Sergey Lavrov's claims about the 200 Ukrainian extremists in Belarus:

“I don't even want to comment on this nonsense. The 200 Ukrainian extremists that Ukraine allegedly sent to Belarus to destabilise the situation, and the training camps for extremists in Ukraine are the fruit of the painful imagination of those who provided such information to my Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov."

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