Moscow cannot rule out the narrative that [Alexei] Navalny was poisoned with a chemical substance in Germany, or on the plane that took him to Berlin.
This is part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny by trying to portray it as entirely unconnected to Russia and denying Russia's well-documented role in the use of Novichok.
Russian chemist Dr. Vil Mirzayanov said that Novichok production was only refined in the U.S.S.R. and Russia and that Russia had to be behind previous attacks because it “is the country that invented it, has the experience, turned it into a weapon... has fully mastered the cycle.” An investigation by Bellingcat has discovered evidence that Russia continued its Novichok development programme long beyond the officially announced closure date.
Furthermore, Navalny’s team found bottles in the hotel room where he had stayed in the Russian city in Tomsk-Siberia, as they documented in a video posted afterwards in Navalny’s Instagram account.
Georgy Alburov, a member of Navalny's team, reported that German laboratory found traces of Novichok on the bottle, which means that “this was done before he left his room to go to the airport”.
This narrative is part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on the poisoning of Navalny, which follows the same playbook that the one deployed after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018, a case where there is strong evidence of the involvement of Russian intelligence operatives and high-level Russian officials. By trying to deflect any Russian responsibility for it, a frequent Kremlin tactic.
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 West hopes that Navalny 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.
Senior high-tech officials have strengthened their strict oversight processes before, during and after the US presidential election trying to control debate and public political discussion.
In recent days, Donald Trump himself, several of his supporters, and people who have their own view of events have all been censored by Facebook and Twitter.
Pro-Kremlin conspiracy theory about social media, advancing pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about “secret elites” and the West's alleged media censorship and societal control.
There is no evidence that social media outlets are censoring US President Donald Trump or his supporters. The day before the article was published, the top 10 performing Facebook posts included four posts from Donald Trump, three from conservative news outlets Fox News and Newsmax, one from evangelist missionary and Trump supporter Franklin Graham, and one tweet from the White House.
Russia may consider withdrawing from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), if the organisation continues its policy of bias against certain countries.
The accusations levelled against the Syrian authorities of using chemical weapons, Moscow and Damascus confirmed that there is no evidence of these accusations.
What happened with the former client, Sergey Skripal, and the activist, Alexei Navalny, also comes in the context of the bias of the organisation that did not base its statements on any facts or evidence.
The OPCW is an important organisation, although it is losing its credibility.
Recurring disinformation narratives attacking the independence and integrity of the OPCW and a disinformation narrative about the Salisbury and Navalny poisonings.
According to the OPCW's Director-General, the organisation has been targeted by a disinformation campaign when it granted new powers to assign blame for chemical attacks. 18 countries issued a joint statement, which called for an end to the unacceptable Russian defamation of the OPCW. Regarding the other allegations in the article:
British MI6’s ears stick out behind Turkey’s actions in Karabakh. Pan-Turkism was a British product. Richard Moore, a former British ambassador to Turkey and a close friend of Erdogan, is behind the Karabakh war.
Britain has always been on the side of the Ottomans and for the expulsion of Iran from the Caucasus. Today all opponents of Iran have gathered in Karabakh.
Conspiracy theory about the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
There is no evidence that any Western foreign special services had anything to do with the 2020 military escalation between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
