12-18-20 Tomsk local lawmakers stressed that since the names of individuals allegedly involved in Navalny's poisoning have been made public, the investigation must be launched immediately. The letter appeared on Twitter hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Navalny "is supported by the U.S. secret services." Putin said that is why Russia's secret services "must keep an eye on him, but it does not mean that it is necessary to poison him. Who needs him? If they wanted to, they would have finished the job,” Putin said. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-tomsk-lawmakers-navalny-poisoning-probe/31007494.html
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12-18-20 Navalny attributed the discovery to
Christo Grozev, Bellingcat’s “chief and very cool investigator from Bulgaria,” who recently contacted him with the message: “You know, I think we’ve found the people who tried to kill you.” Navalny’s own Anti-Corruption Foundation then joined the investigation, retracing Grozev’s steps and verifying his findings. Meduza special correspondent Liliya Yapparova spoke to Grozev about how he managed to track down a “secret and completely separate” group inside the FSB, why he’s certain these men are responsible for the attempt on Navalny’s life, and what he expects next in this story.
There’s some evidence that Navalny was poisoned last year with the same substance that nearly killed him this August: aboard a plane in 2019 he says he experienced the same acute discomfort that preceded his violent illness and coma. A few months earlier, moreover, his wife Yulia was also suddenly albeit briefly unwell. Both of these incidents, Grozev told Meduza, could very well have been the result of the FSB’s attempts to find the dose needed to kill Navalny as delicately as possible. Grozev says there is “no innocent explanation” for why a group of specialists trained in medicine and chemical weapons traveled under assumed identities and then used a secure network to communicate with Russia’s Novichok experts immediately before Navalny was poisoned and then with experts in mass spectrometry (who could explain how long a poison’s traces remain detectable), immediately afterward. “Any court would convict these people,” says Grozev. Bellingcat proved that these FSB agents followed Navalny in Tomsk on the day he was poisoned, just as these men had tailed him 37 times before. “We leave it to the reader to decide if they tried to kill him,” Grozev told Meduza.
After Alexey Navalny was nearly assassinated, Bellingcat studied the scientists’ telephone records, looking for calls with anyone identified as an FSB agent in the app “GetContact,” where users pool their personal contact lists to create and access a database that matches numbers to the names they’ve been assigned on different phones. Grozev and his colleagues went looking for phone numbers linked to names like “Stanislav FSB” and “Vladimir FSB.” For more subtle evidence, the researchers turn to leaked archives like “Larix” for credit records, employment histories, past convictions, and flight itineraries.
Grozev returned to the telephone records Bellingcat obtained in its work on Russia’s chemical weapons lab, the Signal Scientific Center. According to these documents the facility’s director, Arthur Zhirov, had a history of calls with someone identified by GetContact as “Alexey Podlipki FSB” -- apparently a reference to a small village outside Moscow, where the Federal Security Service has no official presence. These communications spiked on July 6, 2020--a date that held no significance, as far as Navalny and the public record were concerned.
Wondering if he’d missed something, Grozev contacted Navalny in mid-November and asked if anything had happened on this day. It turns out that Navalny’s wife Yulia became suddenly ill on July 6 while vacationing in Kaliningrad. Navalny didn’t publicize the incident when it happened because he didn’t understand it himself. “This was the first moment when I realized that it seemed we’d found something,” Grozev told Meduza. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/18/it-s-always-a-choice
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"Maxim Ustinov" telephones FSB agent Konstantin Kudryavtsev, trained at a military bio-chemical academy and previously worked at biological warfare institute within the ministry of defense. Bellingcat said the call took place last week. The call was recorded by the independent investigative group Bellingcat….The FSB on Monday rejected the call as “fake” and claimed it could only have been produced by “foreign security services.” In a statement FSB said it was investigating the recording and suggested there could be consequences for the publication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRku_Kn5aUU and https://abcnews.go.com/International/navalny-russian-agent-accidentally-admitted-poisoning/story?id=74846279
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12-21-20 On 12-14-20 4:30-5:20 a.m. Berlin time Navalny used an IP telephony application which permits the custom-setting of a caller ID. In this case the number that was selected for ID spoofing was that of an FSB landline which, call records showed, had been in regular communication with several of the squad members.
Kudryavtsev in Moscow area, 2 hours east, initially thought he was receiving a call from Artyom Troyanov (his first line upon answering the phone was “Artyom, greetings…”), an FSB officer who--in Kudryavtsev’s own words--uses that landline number. “Maxim”, the non-existent aide to Nikolay Patrushev, told him that his call was routed via the FSB phone exchange, which might explain why it appears as someone else’s number, and Kudryavtsev appeared to believe this. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/
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12-22-20 Navalny said he disguised his phone number….
'It was a planned provocation aimed at discrediting the FSB of Russia and employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the implementation of which would not have been possible without the organisational and technical support of foreign special services.' 'The telephone video is a fake. The use of the method of substituting a subscriber number is a well-known technique of foreign special services, previously tested more than once in anti-Russian actions'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9078839/Kremlin-says-Alexei-Navalny-sick-claimed-duped-FSB-agent-admitting-plot.html
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The recording of the phone conversation between opposition figure Alexey Navalny and a federal agent allegedly involved in poisoning him is fake, the FSB’s Public Relations Center told the Russian state news agency TASS on Monday, December 21. The video with the telephone conversation is fake. Using the method of substituting a subscriber’s number is a well-known technique of foreign intelligence services, previously tested in anti-Russian campaigns more than once, which makes it possible to exclude the possibility of identifying the real participants in the conversation. The FSB’s spokespeople also added that the journalistic investigation implicating federal agents in Navalny’s poisoning was a planned provocation against the Russian intelligence services. https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/21/russian-fsb-dismisses-navalny-s-phone-call-with-federal-agent-implicated-in-poisoning-as-fake
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12-23-20 Russian lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday to ban the public dissemination of data about security and law enforcement members. The bill is part of a wider set of legislation cracking down on online dissent ahead of Russia’s 2021 parliamentary elections https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/12/23/russia-moves-to-hide-security-officers-data-after-navalny-poisoning-revelations-a72451
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See also: https://balance10.blogspot.com/2020/12/meet-fsb-specialops-center-in-moscow.html
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