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Putin critic Alexei Navalny was 'without a doubt' poisoned with Novichok, says Germany
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia.Navalny was rushed to hospital on August 20 and taken to the Siberian city of Omsk after an emergency landing.He was then taken to Berlin's Charite hospitals, where doctors found indicators of poisoning.Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said in a statement that testing by a German military laboratory had shown proof of "a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group".Novichok was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain.