DISINFO: The Navalny Affair is undoubtedly a false-flag provocation to foment hostiliy against Moscow
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: Strategic Culture Foundation (archived)*
  • Date of publication: September 09, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): English
  • Reported in: Issue 211
  • Countries / regions discussed: UK, Germany, Russia
Tags:
Skripal novichok false flag Alexei Navalny MI6 Sanctions

DISINFO: The Navalny Affair is undoubtedly a false-flag provocation to foment hostiliy against Moscow

SUMMARY

As with the alleged assassination attempt on MI6 double agent Sergei Skripal, the latest incident involving Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is undoubtedly a false-flag provocation to foment Western sanctions and hostility against Moscow.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative on the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and Russophobia. Alexey Navalny fell ill during a flight and his plane and was initially hopitalised in Omsk. Since then he has been transferred to Berlin and is receiving treatment at Berlin's Charite 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 poisoning of Alexei Navalny in the strongest possible terms. The use of multiple and simultaneous versions about an event involving questionable actions by the Russian government or its allies, in order to confound citizens about the actual truth, is a recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation strategy, already seen in the cases of the MH17 downing, the illegal annexation of Crimea, the murder attempt against Sergei and Yulia Skripal or chemical attacks in Syria. Read similar cases claiming that the US hopes that the Navalny case will lead to the cancellation of Nord Stream 2, that the West will falsely accuse Russia of poisoning Navalny, as with Skripal and Litvinenko and that the West has an interest in the death of Navalny to launch a new wave of sanctions against Russia.

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