Navalny Poisoned Before Leaving Hotel in Siberia, Allies Say
- Colleagues gathered evidence from hotel room after poisoning
- Traces of Novichok nerve agent found on water bottle in room
Alexey Navalny
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned before he left his hotel in the Siberian city of Tomsk to catch a flight to Moscow, his allies said on Instagram.
Navalny fell victim last month to what German doctors later identified as poisoning by the military nerve agent Novichok. He emerged 10 days ago from a coma in the Berlin hospital, where he’d been flown for treatment.