Before He Fell Ill, Navalny's Every Move Was Tracked. What About The Poisoning?

[Rogue Valley]

Before He Fell Ill, Navalny's Every Move Was Tracked. What About The Poisoning?

Navalny with supporters in Tomsk on August 19.

8/26/20
When Aleksei Navalny and three colleagues left on August 18 to drive 250 kilometers south to Tomsk, a group of plainclothes officers trailed him. In Tomsk itself, every detail of his two-day visit -- including the location of his rented apartment and the names of people he met -- was recorded. "Law enforcement noted no suspicious contacts that could be linked to a poisoning," read an article by the Moskovsky komsomolets tabloid that detailed the depth of this surveillance and cited anonymous officials in Russia's security services. The article was published on August 21, the day after Navalny collapsed on board a plane flying to Moscow and was hospitalized after an emergency landing in Omsk. Navalny now lies comatose in a Berlin hospital, where German doctors say he appears to have been poisoned with a potentially dangerous chemical. The Kremlin has rebuffed Western calls for an immediate investigation. The fact that details of Navalny's movements were recorded and leaked to a pro-government newspaper wasn't wholly surprising. But the leaks conspicuously omitted the fact that despite the blanket surveillance, security agencies implausibly failed to detect when the toxin may have been ingested.

It's a system reliant not only on covert and open surveillance, but also the collaboration of freelancers who trail Navalny's every move to produce so-called "kompromat," or compromising material that can be shared with friendly media and aired to the population at large, driving the narrative that the opposition itself is venal. The Russian doctors who initially treated Navalny issued contradictory statements about his health and the presence of toxins in his body. According to Navalny's spokeswoman, his wife, and his private doctor, they actively opposed his transfer to Germany under pressure from police officers and unidentified men who kept watch over the Omsk ward during Navalny's treatment there. The Kremlin has denied surveilling Navalny or working with pro-government channels. But Mikhail Rubin, the author of the Proekt investigation, said the notion that the Kremlin would be clueless as to how he fell ill did not stand up to scrutiny. "With that amount of surveillance, with such a large number of resources focused on Navalny, they should at least have some idea of what happened to him," Rubin told the Meduza news site. "We can state that with certainty."

I find the notion that the FSB fumbled its intense surveillance of Alexsei Navalny incredible to say the least. The same with Russian doctors in Omsk who failed to detect the organophosphate poisons in his system.

All involved tried mightily to deny Navalny's air-transfer to Germany until the international spotlight/pressure became too great.

Related: Navalny’s Doctors Contact Bulgarian Medics Over Possible Link to 2015 Poisoning

 

[Ringo Stalin]

"We need a transparent investigation of what happened to Navalny," the NATO Secretary General said.

NATO! The military alliance says it needs something from this situation. Or it was their soldier injured?

It seems that the old soviet poisons have run out of shelf life, because none of the "poisoned" throughout the "free world" didn't kick the bucket...

 

[Ringo Stalin]

The US will help with the investigation if Navalny's poisoning is confirmed, Pompeo said.

What about the case of the journalist dismembered by the Saudis? Have you already helped investigate it?

 

[Rogue Valley]

:roll:

At least the Kremlin could provide trolls that make a smidgen of sense.

 

[Ringo Stalin]

This is the most disgusting hypocrisy when seemingly reasonable people care about the health of a 45-year-old man, who has eaten something, and at the same time are absolutely indifferent to the deaths of children, women and the elderly in Novorossiya.
This is hypocrisy, but not compassion.
Compassion is different. When compassion for all.

 

[Rogue Valley]

:roll: If Putin is so concerned about Novorossiya, he can send rubles.

High hypocrisy.