by Finian Cunningham,Strategic Culture:

If Russia wanted to kill Western intelligence asset Alexei Navalny while in prison, it could have used all sorts of devious methods to simply bump him off.

Russian state agents could have laced his prison rations or water with the notorious Soviet-era chemical weapon Novichok, or faked a suicide by self-strangulation. Or feigned a head trauma incurred by him slipping on a bar of soap.

Navalny died in 2024 aged 49 while in a Siberian penal colony serving 19 years for convictions over extremism and corruption. The Russian authorities claimed his death was due to natural causes. He was complaining of ill-health.

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At the weekend, five European governments have revived accusations made by Navalny’s widow that he was murdered on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden issued ajoint statementalleging that Navalny was poisoned with an exotic toxin produced by a South American frog. The natural chemical, known as epibatidine, is found in the skin of the dart frog that is native to Peru and Ecuador.

Why this exotic means of killing? Well, of course, a tongue-in-cheek answer is that Navalny seemed to have superhuman resistance to Novichok, the Soviet-era chemical weapon that Russia allegedly used to try to assassinate a double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury in 2018. Novichok is supposed to be so toxic that a mere drop on one’s skin is enough to kill. Mysteriously, the Skripals have vanished, and the British authorities have never accounted for their whereabouts.

Two years after the Salisbury saga, Navalny was supposedly attacked with Novichok in August 2020 while on an internal flight in Russia. Russia permitted the stricken Navalny to travel on to Germany for medical treatment, whereupon German military intelligence discovered he had Novichok in his body. Such a claim begs incredulity. There was no independent verification of the finding. Also, Navalny apparently survived and returned to Russia a few months later in rude health when he was arrested on corruption charges.

So you see, dear readers, British intelligence and their NATO counterparts couldn’t very well use the old Novichok story again because their champion dissident was apparently resistant to the deadly Novichok.

Source: SGT Report