#Navalny
There we have it:
the German gov't referred to EU and NATO for a common response to the suspected poisoning of Alexey Navalny, and the European Parliament now passes a resolution calling for an international probe & suspension of Nord Stream 2!
rt.com/russia/500929-…
The resolution has no legal bearing - it is pure political posturing intended to “continue to isolate Russia in international forums” & “to prioritize the approval of EU human rights sanctions”.
How can you call for an investigation - and already anticipate the results?
Meanwhile, the Navalny story is taking on a "Skripalesque" flavour:
now it is the bottle, left in his hotel room in Tomsk!
So, upon hearing Navalny has fallen ill, his Tomsk team rushes into his hotel room and collects items, recording this video:
instagram.com/p/CFOnffrHZ0d/
(who let them in? still not cleaned? before FSB got there?)
WTF?
Three half-empty water bottles .... promptly dealt with in a Novichok-adequate way!
Then delivered from Tomsk to Berlin ...
According to Spiegel, an employee of the hotel is heard in the video: "if you want to take away something, then only via the police, the director told me".
Navalny team: "Sorry, we can't comply with that ..."
So much for the situation!
spiegel.de/politik/auslan…
Russian opposition media Proekt has many interesting details about the circumstances in Tomsk.
The person who brought the bottles from Tomsk to Omsk, and then to Berlin (on the private plane with Navalny on 22 August), was Maria Pevchikh:
translate.google.com/translate?sl=a…
Maria Pevchikh was the one person from the Navalny team who could not be interviewed by the Siberian police - because she fled, as Lavrov put it:
mid.ru/en/foreign_pol…
Some background on Maria Pevchikh, collected by @SpiegelAnti from Russian media:
she is Russian, 33 years, but lives in London since 2009 (!), worked for a British MP and then for Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
anti-spiegel.ru/2020/die-schoe…
In short, Maria knew Navalny even *before* he became famous and is his link to London and his Russian oligarch financiers (Khodorkovsky, Browder).
She is close to Vladimir Ashurkov, the Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation,
who -->>>
- Vladimir Ashurkov, who appears on the list of the UK "Inner core - Russia" cluster of the Integrity Initiative!
pdf-archive.com/2018/11/02/uk-…
F****** Hell - no anti-Russian plot without the Orwellian #IntegrityInitiative!
Rumours in Russian media that there is a serious conflict between Navalny and his promoter Ashurkov over the course of the FBK (Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation).
Summary on Southfront:
s0uthfront.org/homo-homini-lu…
(replace 0 with o)
This work around for links to Southfront is necessary as @Twitter @TwitterSupport has implemented *FULL* censorship on the site, even URL shorteners don't work, - for the bogus reason it is "potentially harmful"!
Twitter - you are *deceiving* your users!
Maria Pevchikh has given an interview to BBC Russia, talking about her work for the FBK and pushing back against many rumours about her that are circulating on Russian media:
translate.google.com/translate?sl=a…
She confirms she was in Tomsk and carried those bottles to Berlin. More details how they came to search the hotel room, incl. the statement Navalny is healthy, - no diabetes as was rumoured.
In itself, the story sounds plausible to me.
Concerning the bottles, Maria is surprised by the hype around them and believes it is only relevant for the time of the poisoning.
Apparently she doesn't understand that only the traces on that bottle, not the metabolites in Navalny's body allowed to determine the substance!
I didn't expect it but my (Syria-trained!) bullshit detector remained at zero ... Maria's account appears straightforward and credible.
(Do not confuse, from a mistaken attitude, the work of Navalny and his team with as what and what for it is presented in Western media!)
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