Moscow:  joint media investigation revealed that the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was trailed by Chemical weapons experts from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

44-year-old Navalny was hospitalised in the Russian city of Omsk after he collapsed on a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August and then transported by medical aircraft to Berlin. Western experts in the German capital concluded that he was poisoned with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent. However, this claim was repeatedly denied by the Russian officials. 

The investigative website Bellingcat, US network CNN and  Russia's The Insider and Germany's Der Spiegel published a joint report on Monday. This report reveals the names and photos of men who they say specialise in nerve agents and toxins, such as Novichok. based on "volumes of data", including phone logs and travel records, Bellingcat concluded that these men had been trailing Navalny on a regular basis since 2017. It further said,"These operatives were in the vicinity of the opposition activist in the days and hours of the time-range during which he was poisoned with a military-grade chemical weapon."

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