Navalny Case: traces of Novichok found

The German government said that Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok chemical agent, a finding supported by two other laboratories in France and Sweden. Navalny fell ill on August 20 on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. Georgy Alburov, who works at Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said he had stayed in the Siberian city with several colleagues for another day to finish an investigative report on a local officer.

He said that news of Navalny's state reached the group while they were having breakfast at the hotel, and that he and his colleagues were able to gain access to the Kremlin critic's room to collect his personal items before being cleaned: "We put everything in plastic bags and sealed them, so that no one would be hurt if there was any poison on them and nothing else could get in. Traces of a poison called Novichok were found in a water bottle in the hotel room where Navalny was staying.