"Russian Navalny Poisoned by Toxic Substance via Water Bottle at Siberian Hotel"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kiho Sung] Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who is being treated in a German hospital after suffering from poisoning symptoms, is claimed to have been poisoned by the nerve agent "Novichok" found on a water bottle in the hotel room of a Siberian city he visited before falling ill.

Navalny's camp stated on the 17th (local time) via their social media Instagram account that the German laboratory detected traces of Novichok on a plastic water bottle collected from the hotel room in Tomsk, Siberia, where Navalny stayed.

Navalny's team reported that after it became known that he collapsed on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on the 20th of last month and was hospitalized, his aides who remained in Tomsk entered the hotel room where Navalny stayed and collected everything left there. They also collected the water bottle from the room at that time and later handed it over to the German side.

The aides said, "Two weeks later, the German laboratory found traces of Novichok on the water bottle taken from the Tomsk hotel room," adding, "Subsequently, three other laboratories that received samples from Alexei also confirmed that he was poisoned with Novichok."

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