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no bull and the aftermath.

The agent that the German authorities and doctors identified is no other than Navichok,

which is the same nerve agent that the British government identified in the poisoning of

Syghis Krapal and his daughter in Sal's Brei, which caused a huge diplomatic grow and

the Kremlin never admitted any responsibility for it.

So now we see a situation in which the most prominent, most vocal Russian opposition leader

is poisoned with the same nerve agent that we know the GURU, the Russian military intelligence

agency, had used in the poisoning of Syghis Krapal in the UK.

I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast September 15, 2020.

Alexei Navalny is Russia's most prominent dissident, opposition leader and anti-corruption

crusader and the latest such person to be poisoned by the Vladimir Putin regime, which

of course denies doing so.

Navalny's condition as we record is improving, he is in Germany getting medical treatment

and joining me in the virtual jungle studio to discuss his career and why Putin chose

now to attack him is Alina Poliakova, president and CEO of the Center for European Policy

Analysis.

We talked about how Navalny has become such a thorn in the side of the Putin regime.

Now why Putin keeps poisoning people as opposed to killing them by other means and why the

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