A senior ally of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday he believed only President Vladimir Putin could have authorised ...
on Saturday after collapsing on a plane while flying back to Moscow from Siberia.
Without providing evidence, Ivan Zhdanov, the head of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation , said"it is clear that only Putin personally could have sanctioned Navalny's poisoning".German doctors treating him in Berlin said on Monday that medical examinations indicated poisoning with some kind of cholinesterase inhibitor.
Nerve gases and the so-called"Novichok" group of chemicals - substances used in 2018 to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in England - are also cholinesterase inhibitors. Navalny has been a thorn in the Kremlin's side for more than a decade, exposing what he says is high-level graft and mobilising protests.
However, he has said he believes his death would not help Putin. Reuters reported he had told supporters just before his illness that his death would"turn him into a hero".
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