the Navalny team

'I offer my profound apologies to Navalny for the fact that I took part in this criminal business, developing this substance that he was poisoned with,' said

Vil Mirzayanov in an interview with Russia's TV Rain on Saturday. …Mirzayanov, who now lives in the United States, wrote the first articles on Novichok's development in the early 1990s.   'Navalny will just have to be patient but in the end he should be healthy,' Mirzayanov said, predicting recovery would take 'almost a year.’….  

Maria Pevchikh, 33, was with Navalny on a trip to Siberia when he was taken ill….Russian media has quoted the father of an employee of Navalny's anti-corruption foundation claiming he invented 'special needles that allow a substance to be injected into the body without going through the bloodstream'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8755899/Smiling-Navalny-sits-hospital-balcony-Novichok-attack.html ………………............................…. Pevchikh is portrayed in Moscow as being close to the British authorities.But Navalny ally Vladimir Ashurkov said she had merely been an intern to a Westminster politician as a student about 10 years ago. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8755899/Smiling-Navalny-sits-hospital-balcony-Novichok-attack.html ……….......................................… 4-1-2015 Russian prosecutors accuse

Mr Ashurkov (granted political asylum in UK) of stealing contributions to Navalny's campaign for the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections. Navalny failed in his bid. He is under house arrest in Moscow. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32144439 ………………..   the OPCW is requested hereby to confirm the source of its authority in the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention to act in Berlin in this matter and in this way.” Choubey is refusing to answer. When telephoned at her office an OPCW telephonist named Sabina Schwartz put through the call but claimed she did not know Choubey has blocked all incoming calls with a recorded message. This says that because of Covid-19, callers must leave recorded messages or file internet enquiries through the OPCW website.  Choubey will not reply to them. For more details on Choubey’s background as a US warfighter against Russia, starting during the Skripal affair, read this. Deepti Choubey, head of the OPCW’s press branch; right, Kai Chen, who supervises the OPCW’s  press branch and also the political affairs and protocol branch. Choubey’s boss, Kai Chen, a Chinese national who is chief of the OPCW’s external relations division, picks up his telephone at OPCW headquarters. He is responsible, according to an OPCW manual, for “liais[on] with governments, international organisations, the media, and non-governmental organisations”. On Monday he said he knew nothing about OPCW’s involvement in Germany at the moment, and doesn’t answer questions directed to his press branch. He claimed that a duty officer works around the clock in Choubey’s office where “we process all inquiries”. Why then was Chen’s division refusing to answer questions about the OPCW’s involvement in the Navalny case? He refused to say….By the time the OPCW technicians arrived at Navalny’s bedside to take their samples, three weeks had elapsed and no trace of the “substance” is likely to have been found. ……………………….................................   Pevchikh’s record in the UK reveals her working association with anti-Russian regime-change organisations of Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation; Navalny’s staff claim Pevchikh has been employed as head of investigations for their group.  http://johnhelmer.net/the-pevchikh-plot-navalny-bottle-london-witness-flee-the-scene-of-the-crime-berlin-too/ ………………………..........................................…. The first piece of news was the fact that Yevgeny Chichvarkin closed the “Fund for Fighting Corruption and Supporting Libertarianism” three months after its establishment. The organization, created in London in November 2019, was supposed to streamline the financing of Navalny, carried out personally through Chichvarkin. The liquidation of the fund took place on February 25, 2020, according to the information on the website of the UK Companies House. The reason could be the conflict between Navalny, Chichvarkin and Khodorkovsky over calls not to protest against the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the “Smart Vote” launched by FBK in 2019. This likely relates to personal reasons: Khodorkovsky is a very close person to him and the godfather of his daughter. In addition, Navalny and Khodorkovsky have common sources of funding and backers who did not appreciate the opposition’s excessive independence. As an NGO-foreign agent, FBK cannot legally use the smart vote technology and influence electoral processes, thereby endangering the existence of the organization and the funds invested in its work. Against the background of all the accumulated issues, problems with a debt of 88 million to “Putin’s Chef” Yevgeny Prigozhin and the prospect of bankruptcy, a long-lasting and unresolved conflict began between Navalny, Ashurkov and other London oppositionists a few months ago. A debt of 88 million rubles to “Putin’s Chef”, pushed Navalny to announce the liquidation of FBK on July 20. According to Russian media sources close to FBK and Navalny, the decision was made without discussion with Ashurkov and Volkov. “Naturally, Ashurkov did not like amateur performances. Too much has been invested in Navalny and FBK in 10 years to allow him to single-handedly close the office, transfer money to another legal entity and work through a new fund. There was also a question of the reputation of both Ashurkov himself, and people who support him,” the source said. On July 22, Ashurkov called Navalny and demanded an explanation, offering two options for the development of events, according to the source. “At first Ashurkov tried to explain that closing FBK, especially without consulting anyone, was impossible. Navalny was given an ultimatum, and the consequences of its liquidation – ‘If you switch to another legal entity, you return all the funds invested in you and the fund: you transfer all monetary and material assets, return the last 33 million invested in you from FBK accounts and your personal from foreign accounts.’ FBK is the one who can pay off the debts and will not allow the appointment of an arbitration manager who will have access to the entire financial history of the fund. In addition, Navalny must remove all films and investigations himself so that no one gets to them. This prospect made everyone very nervous. And Navalny also had to return all the shares that Ashurkov gave him to join the boards of directors of all major companies. in Russia for access to internal documentation and meetings. So Navalny collected the first materials for his investigations,” the source said. Reportedly, Navalny reacted strongly and caused quite a conflict. And he had quite a bit of assets in FBK.  As of 2012, his portfolio contained securities of 37 OJSCs, including Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, Surgutneftegaz, VTB Bank and others. After Ashurkov’s call, Navalny did not back down from his idea and continued to develop the topic of liquidating FBK, counting donations and helping people to re-register regular donations to new accounts. At the same time, active exploitation of the topic continued to promote existing projects of the fund and increase the popularity of Navalny himself as a “victim of the regime.” Observing the situation, Ashurkov on July 27 made a new attempt to discuss with Navalny further steps on the FBK. But this conversation also ended in a scandal through the fault of the oppositionist. Navalny’s words about the absence of shares are indirectly confirmed by the presence of income from his wife. Probably, two or three years ago, the oppositionist actually gave her securities. And having a debt of 29 million to Prigozhin, he also withdrew his personal funds from the accounts, simultaneously closing accounts in Alfa-Bank in July. Now Navalny has 43,079 rubles at Tinkoff and 164,153 rubles at Raiffeisen. But these accounts were arrested in the framework of the case of money laundering in FBK. A massive sum of money in treasures and various assets had disappeared. In late July, however, Ashurkov called Navalny and told him that the conflict was behind them and everything was fine. In 2008 Maria Pevchikh graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in Sociology. According to Russian sources, during the studying in the Moscow State University, she already had strong pro-British views, and was publicly declaring a goal to get a British citizenship.  Later she graduated from the elite London School of Economics and Political Science. She has been living in Great Britain for a long time, and at the age of 22 she served as an assistant to one of the members of the British Parliament. At the moment, she is in business, owning a chain of bookstores in the UK and Australia. Her exact level of income is unknown, but there was enough money for an apartment overlooking the Tower of London in the elite complex The Circle on Queen Elizabeth Street. Her father, Konstantin Pevchikh, owns a research company and a biological laboratory. LLC “Fotisse” was registered at the end of July this year. There is no information on the scope of the organization. NIOBIS LLC has been developing projects for growing viruses and biological cells for ten years. Maria Pevchikh has extensive business and political ties, including with Chichvarkin and Khodorkovsky. These both persons are widely known for their active anti-Russian position, involvement and funding of various anti-government campaigns in Russia and apparent ties with Western, mostly British, special services. Navalny and Pevchikh have known each other for at least the last 10 years. Since 2010, at the request of Ashurkov, she has been providing information support to the oppositionist, providing information about the assets of high-ranking Russians in the UK for investigations. Such data cannot be found in the public domain, and therefore there is reason to believe that Maria is cooperating with the European intelligence services and MI6. The woman visits Russia two or three times a year, and secretly contacts Navalny. She herself does not take joint photos and videos, and hides her presence on the Internet through a VPN. During her visit to Russia, she practically does not leave Navalny, maintaining contact. She also has a long-term relationship with Ashurkov: in 2013, she organized negotiations in Moscow between ex-Prime Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt and adviser to the President of Lithuania on foreign policy issues Renaldas Vaisbrodas with Navalny and Ashurkov. https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS919US919&sxsrf=ALeKk03RvNC9L89MeeS8yzKWGyhvAy-E4Q%3A1600707333329&ei=BdtoX73eE9a80PEPyNuF2AI&q=Maria+Pevchikh%3Bs+father+invented+&oq=Maria+Pevchikh%3Bs+father+invented+&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIECCMQJzoECAAQR1D9sQZY-LsGYJjHBmgAcAN4AIABaIgBngWSAQM1LjKYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6yAEIwAEB&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwj99Pe_2_rrAhVWHjQIHchtASsQ4dUDCA0&uact=5