Russian President Putin’s political adversaries keep being poisoned
This appeared in The Millennial Source
Putin has denied any involvement in the poisoning of his political adversaries — going so far as to suggest Alexei Navalny poisoned himself — but his critics have little doubt he was behind the assassination attempts.
On September 22, Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russia’s main opposition party, Russia of the Future, left a German hospital after recovering from nerve agent poisoning.
Navalny had fallen ill on August 20, while on a flight from Serbia to Moscow, requiring the plane to make an emergency landing. He was transferred to Berlin two days later, where German doctors determined he had been poisoned.
An investigation into how and why Navalny was poisoned is ongoing, but parallels to the poisoning of other Russians in recent years points to one common figure: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin has denied any involvement in the poisoning of his political adversaries — going so far as to suggest Navalny poisoned himself — but his critics have little doubt he was behind the assassination attempts.
The poisoning of Alexei Navalny
As the leader of the Russia of the Future party (Rossiya Budushchego in Russian, formerly the Progress Party)…