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2.7 ​ ​Novichok fund in a water bottle in Navalny’s hotel room
Colleagues of anti-corruption blogger and opposition activist Alexei Navalny found a bottle of water containing traces of the nerve agent Novichok used to poison him in a water bottle ​in his hotel room in Tomsk, they said in a video posted on September 17.
Navalny fell critical ill a few hours later during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on August 20 and his plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Omsk, before he was later flown to a hospital in Berlin.
Following reports of Navalny suspected poisoning, members of his organisation in Tomsk went to his hotel room in Tomsk where he had spent the night and collected everything, including several bottles of water, which were then sent to Germany for testing.
The team announced that traces of Novichok had been found in one of the bottles of water. Initial reports said that Navalny had been poisoned at the airport with a cup of tea.
Laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden have established he was poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent, a poison developed by the Soviet military, though Russia denies this and says it has seen no evidence.
20 ​RUSSIA Country Report​ October 2020 ​ ​www.intellinews.com