Posted on 08/20/2020 5:54:09 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison.
A fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny started feeling ill when returning to Moscow from Tomsk in Siberia by plane on Wednesday morning. He was carried off the plane on a stretcher after it made an emergency landing at Omsk.
He was in intensive care and on an artificial lung ventilator in an Omsk hospital, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said.
“We assume that Alexei was poisoned with something mixed into his tea. It was the only thing that he drank in the morning. Alexi is now unconscious,” Yarmysh said.
Doctors gave contradictory information about his condition, saying it had stabilized but also that there was still a threat to his life and they were working to save him.
There is a long history of Kremlin foes being poisoned or falling ill after suspected poisonings.
They include Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London in 2006 after drinking tea laced with polonium-210, and Sergei Skripal, a former double agent who was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2018 in Salisbury, England.
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Doesn’t sound good. Would like to know how the poison got into the tea in the first place, though. Not saying I doubt the story, not at all. But wouldn’t the guy be naturally hyper-careful, considering who he is, who he opposes, and what has happened to several anti-Putin people? Was it a good idea to drink tea in public place at all, given all those factors?
KGB Vlad doesn’t mess around.
Doesn’t anybody drink coffee there?
Commies are going to commie. Putin is a communist.
Notice that the fake opposition Communist Party of the Russian Federation never has this happen to them.
Please excuse follow-up post. When I say “how the poison got into the tea”, I mean was the person who mixed it bribed? Was the tea diverted by an agent on its way to the table? Was the employee of wherever he got the tea (waitress, etc.) pro-Putin and poisoned the tea on his/her own?
Obviously I need to become a writer. :-)
It’s sad Russia went backwards and allowed a dictator to take over.
It would be fairly easy to control the liquids you imbibe...but food would be a different story.
I see the Russian political season is well underway.
Just when I start liking Putin, something like this happens. The Russian Deep State is as bad as ours...
It’s sad Russia went backwards and allowed a dictator to take over.
It’s probably for the best. Russia is prone to violence and has no history of liberal democracy. Expecting anything better than Putin out of them is a fools errand.
These guys are real pros.
Putin is a killer.
weird, they can’t find a window for him?
Yes, we know what you mean...
Well, at least he wasn’t shot off a bridge as Nemtsov was.
There was a time when the Soviet Union could have evolved slowly into something like a typical European welfare state, but the neocons who were advising Yeltsin advocated a quick turn toward free markets. But those "free" markets were quickly gobbled up by ex-KGB oligarchs who were then reined in by ex-KGB Putin.
Putin’s fingerprints.
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