Thread by @bellingcat

Last night, Bellingcat’s investigation with CNN into the poisoning of Alexey @Navalny won two Emmy awards, the first for Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast

https://twitter.com/newsemmys/status/1443022570249494532

The second Emmy award was for Outstanding Research: News. A huge thank you to @clarissaward and her team at CNN for helping to bring this story to a wider audience in such an engaging way

https://twitter.com/newsemmys/status/1443014164558012419

CNN’s reporting can be seen here, including the moment where @clarissaward doorsteps one of the FSB team members involved with Navalny’s poisoning identified by Bellingcat’s research.

The report was based on Bellingcat’s investigation into the poisoning team behind the assassination attempt on @Navalny, which revealed the involved of the Russian intelligence services bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

This investigation also led to @Navalny tricking one of the suspected team members into giving a detailed confession to his part in the poisoning operation, confirming details of our investigation and revealing more information about the poisoning
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

Credit also to our partners in Russia, @the_ins_ru, and @Dobrokhotov, whose work on Russian assassinations with Bellingcat has led to them being targeted by Russian authorities rferl.org/a/roman-dobrok…

It should also not be forgotten that @Navalny was one of several targets of the same FSB team we were able to identify, which included 3 local activists who died under mysterious circumstances while being followed by the team bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

Russian opposition figure and Boris Nemstov ally Vladimir Kara-Murza (@vkaramurza) was also followed by the same team, and twice fell into comas after falling ill while being followed by the team bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

The work of the poisoning team extended beyond just targeting opposition figures, it also including targeting popular Russian poet Dmitry Bykov
bellingcat.com/news/2021/06/0…

Our investigations suggest there's many more suspicious illnesses and deaths linked to the movements of the same FSB team that targeted Navalny and the other figures we've identified, part of what appears to be an ongoing assassination programme of undesirables in Russia.

We have many more investigations to complete into the team's activities, and we hope the issue will continue to receive attention with our Emmy wins for the Navalny investigation, as for opposition figures in Russia it's literally a matter of life or death.

Details of how the Navalny investigation and other investigations into Russian assassinations were done can be found in this article bellingcat.com/resources/2020…

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