Political scuffle is quite high in the country of Russia. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny states that he is certain that Russian President Vladimir Putin was accountable for his poisoning in August, as he doesn't see "any other explanation." In an interview with a leading German magazine published on Thursday, Navalny said that he came to this conclusion after German military lab tests showed he was poisoned by the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok; labs in France and Sweden later confirmed these findings. He fell ill on Aug. 20 while taking a flight from Siberia to Moscow, and after getting hospitalized in Russia, was shifted to a hospital in Berlin, where he spent some time in a medically induced coma.
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Navalny stated that only the heads of Russia's intelligence services could direct the use of Novichok, and those leaders "cannot make a decision like that without being instructed by Putin. They report to him. I assert that Putin was behind the crime ... I'm not saying this out of self-flattery, but based on the facts. The most important fact is Novichok." Navalny recommended that he was harmed because Putin is worried about protests in the Khabarovsk region of Russia and the anti-government protests in Belarus, following a challenged election.
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He said, "The system is fighting for its survival and we've just felt the consequences." Earlier last month, Navalny was released from the hospital, and he remains in Germany. His spokesperson stated that Navalny's apartment in Moscow has been seized and his bank accounts frozen, but Navalny told the german magazine that he will return to Russia. Otherwise, it would mean "that Putin has won and achieved his goal. ... I'm not afraid. I would not give Putin the gift of not returning to Russia."
