Novichok

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, shows himself, centre, and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, posing for a photo in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has posted the picture of himself in a hospital in Germany and says he's breathing on his own. He posted on Instagram Tuesday Sept. 15, 2020: "Hi, this is Navalny. I have been missing you. I still can't do much, but yesterday I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day." (Navalny instagram via AP)

'Poisoned' Putin critic Navalny shares hospital photo of himself

Navalny’s spokeswoman said that once he has recovered, the Putin critic plans to return to Russia

16 Sep 2020 9:38 AM

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP File)

Germany says French, Swedish labs confirm Navalny's Novichok poisoning

The poisoning has brought tensions between Russia and Germany to new heights, fuelling calls for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be scrapped

14 Sep 2020 3:18 PM

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (centre). (AP File)

Russian police seek to question Navalny in Germany

Navalny's posioning case has prompted international calls for Russia to carry out a transparent investigation or risk sanctions

11 Sep 2020 2:17 PM

Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol, center left, opposition candidate Ilya Yashin, center right, candidate Ivan Zhdanov, right, and opposition candidate Alexei Minyalo walk during a protest in Moscow, Russia. They work with the organization of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in a Berlin hospital after suffering what German authorities say was a poisoning with a chemical nerve agent while traveling in Siberia on Aug. 20. (AP)

German foreign minister threatens sanctions over Navalny poisoning

The Kremlin has denied responsibility for the attack and said that Germany is yet to share any findings with Moscow's prosecutors

06 Sep 2020 11:52 AM

A man holds a poster with a portrait of Alexei Navalny reading "Navalny was poisoned, we know who is to blame, Alexei you must live" during an unsanctioned protest in Russia. Russian authorities have appeared reluctant to investigate what caused Navalny’s condition, saying there had so far been no grounds for a criminal investigation. (AP)

NATO agrees Russia’s Navalny was poisoned using nerve agent

German authorities have said that tests showed that he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group

05 Sep 2020 12:20 PM

Russian police carry opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, from a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin in Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia. (AP File)

NATO to have urgent meet on poisoning of Navalny

Western leaders have demanded answers from Kremlin after Berlin said there was evidence that he had been afflicted by the infamous Novichok

04 Sep 2020 2:46 PM

Spy plot: UK names two Russian GRU men

The UK police revealed images of the two men they said had flown to Britain for a weekend in March.

06 Sep 2018 5:14 AM

Russia has rejected allegations levelled by the UK that Moscow was behind the deadly nerve-agent attack in the English city of Salisbury on March 4 that had left Skripal and his daughter hospitalised in critical condition. (Photo: File)

US to impose new sanctions on Russia over nerve agent attack in Britain

The State Department said that following a 15-day Congressional notification period, these sanctions will take effect around August 22.

09 Aug 2018 1:26 PM

Two Britons fell ill in June after being exposed to Novichok in the same region of southwest England, but police have not been able to establish whether the toxin was from the same batch used against the Skripals. (Photo: AP)

British police identify suspects in Novichok attack on ex-Russian spy: Report

Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia collapsed in Salisbury on March 4 after being exposed to nerve agent Novichok.

19 Jul 2018 2:05 PM

Novichok is a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. (Photo: AFP)

British police probes new Novichok nerve agent poisoning

A couple was taken ill close to Salisbury, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found earlier.

05 Jul 2018 5:25 PM

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