Navalny poisoning tests Merkel’s patience
Attempt to kill opposition figure has triggered a downward spiral in German-Russian ties
18 September 2020 - 10:52
Moscow/Berlin — Alexei Navalny’s team was at breakfast in the Siberian city of Tomsk when they received word that the opposition leader had fallen violently ill on his flight home to Moscow.
The activists raced to the room in the Xander hotel he had left hours before and scrambled to collect evidence. “It was obvious to us that Navalny hadn’t just gotten a bit sick,” they recalled in an Instagram post Thursday. “We decided to take everything that might be of use.”..
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