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It's amazing that people really believe in these conspiracy theories about evil Russian government which tries to kill people with Novichok, an agent so powerful that it cant kill anyone.

There are much more simple and effective ways. E.g. just hire a street thug, pretend a robbery

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Did you not see the YouTube video where one of the agents admits it on the phone and describes the process?

I thought it was already established that Russia did this beyond reasonable doubt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvA49ZXnf8

Well if you watch that carefully, you'd see that Navalny pushing hard his version of events on that other guy, who pretty much responds mostly "I don't know much".

Now imagine a situation that bellingcat picked up this poor guy, who might be nothing but part of surveillance team and carefully staged this phone record to create an impression that the guy is some sort of a hitman.

In the West people might think that Navalny is a prominent opposition hero, but in reality he's known to be a some sort of "attention whore", has a limited popularity

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