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08/24/20 11:27 PM

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Russian Poisoning Survivor: Trump’s Silence On Navalny Emboldens Putin | MSNBC

"Johnson and May ignored claims Russia had 'likely hold' over Trump, ex-spy alleges
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In his memo to MPs, Steele also argues that Russia under Putin has become a “powerful rogue state”. A lack of pushback from the UK and others has emboldened its bad behaviour, he writes. This trajectory was not inevitable and, he says, has been driven by a “corrupt political elite” fearful of regime change and seeking to protect its “ill-gotten” wealth.
P - He cites seven “paradigm shift” moments that have surprised and wrong-footed successive western governments. They include the breakup of the oil company Yukos .. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/aug/02/oilandpetrol.russia , the poisonings of Litvinenko .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/alexander-litvinenko-the-man-who-solved-his-own-murder .. and Sergei Skripal .. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/26/skripal-poisonings-bungled-assassination-kremlin-putin-salisbury , and the invasions of Georgia .. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/01/russia.georgia .. and Ukraine .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/vladimir-putin-crimean-coup-russia-ukraine . He also mentions Russian election meddling, in particular during the 2016 US presidential vote .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/apr/18/mueller-report-trump-russia-key-takeaways . In each case the west’s response was limited. Moscow perceives this as “weakness”, he writes.
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Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition leader who was the target of two poisoning attempts, condemns Trump’s strategy of appeasement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn4U_YCpC20

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Alexei Navalny: Putin critic 'probably poisoned' - doctors

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Mr Navalny is being treated at the Charite hospital in Berlin Reuters

The Berlin hospital treating the seriously ill Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, says he appears to have been poisoned.

The Charité hospital released a statement saying "clinical evidence suggests an intoxication through a substance belonging to the group of cholinesterase inhibitors".

But doctors who treated him in Russia say the substance was not present.

Mr Navalny fell ill on an internal flight in Russia on Thursday.

Video appeared to show Mr Navalny, a dogged critic of the Kremlin, writhing in agony on the flight from Tomsk in Siberia to Moscow.

His supporters suspect poison was placed in a cup of tea he drank at the airport in Tomsk.

Alexei Navalny: Russia's vociferous Putin critic
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16057045

Mr Navalny's flight made an emergency landing in Omsk where he was first treated.

In their latest statement released after that of the German medical team, the Omsk doctors say tests showed no sign of cholinesterase inhibitors in his body. Speaking last week, the same team suggested his illness was caused by a metabolic disorder triggered by low blood sugar.

On Friday, they at first said he was too ill to be moved but then allowed him to board a medical evacuation flight, which landed in Berlin on Saturday morning.

What did doctors in Germany say?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53892900