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It's Tuesday, February 2, 2021 from Slated to Gist, I'm Mike Peska. Russian dissident

Alexei Navalny was poisoned, he believes, and evidence points to the Russian state. The

official EU finding says such actions could occur, quote, only with the consent of the

presidential executive office, IE Vladimir Putin. Navalny almost died, came very close

to dying. The nerve agent Novicech is extremely potent, but he pulled out of a medically-induced

coma, and rather than stay in Germany where he was treated or flee to the UK, where the

actuarial tables put his lifespan far north of what it would be if he returned to Moscow,

he did just that, knowing the consequences, and he felt those consequences almost immediately,

arrested, and as Sky News reports. He will be going to jail to a penal colony, a corrective

penal colony, for two years and eight months. That was the decision of the court after

a long day in court when Navalny himself seems clearly extremely frustrated by the legal

minutiae that he was being hit with by the prosecution. He was sarcastic, he accused them

of being essentially muppets of the state. Muppet of the state, just noting that, Jim

Hansen, your work on this earth is now complete. You've now replaced the idiom.

Navalny said to the Russians, you can't poison me, Putin said, yeah, I can. Navalny said,

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