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Russia trotting out all the excuses after Navalny exposes FSB in phone-call.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201222-russia-sanctions-eu-over-poisoning-of-delusional-navalnyThe announcement on Tuesday came a day after Navalny, 44, said in a report he had impersonated an official in the Kremlin's Security Council and extracted an admission of guilt from a toxins expert with the FSB security service.
In a video of the conversation published by Navalny, the alleged FSB agent says agents placed poison in Navalny's underwear this summer.
The anticorruption campaigner was flown for treatment to Germany where labs concluded he was poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-designed nerve agent.
Navalny's video of his conversation with the man named Konstantin Kudryavtsev racked up more than 12 million views in less than 24 hours and social media were abuzz with memes about Navalny's underpants.
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The FSB described the phone call as "fake" and said it would not have been possible without "the support of foreign intelligence services.
Last week Putin rejected reports that the FSB had poisoned Navalny, saying that if the security services had wanted to poison the opposition politician, "they would have taken it to the end."
Putin, himself a former KGB officer, over the weekend hailed Russia's "courageous" spies and thanked them for protecting the country from "external and internal threats."
In a video of the conversation published by Navalny, the alleged FSB agent says agents placed poison in Navalny's underwear this summer.
The anticorruption campaigner was flown for treatment to Germany where labs concluded he was poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-designed nerve agent.
Navalny's video of his conversation with the man named Konstantin Kudryavtsev racked up more than 12 million views in less than 24 hours and social media were abuzz with memes about Navalny's underpants.
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The FSB described the phone call as "fake" and said it would not have been possible without "the support of foreign intelligence services.
Last week Putin rejected reports that the FSB had poisoned Navalny, saying that if the security services had wanted to poison the opposition politician, "they would have taken it to the end."
Putin, himself a former KGB officer, over the weekend hailed Russia's "courageous" spies and thanked them for protecting the country from "external and internal threats."
"The phone-call was totally fake! And it was also a totally real western intelligence operation!"
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