Mr Navalny collapsed on a plane to Moscow after drinking a cup of tea at an airport in Siberia last weekStaff at a Berlin hospital treating Alexei Navalny are said to have requested information from doctors who cared for a poisoned Bulgarian arms dealer. Doctors at the Charité hospital have contacted colleagues who treated Emilian Gebrev, according to unidentified sources cited by Der Spiegel and the Bellingcat investigative group. The Bulgarian state charged three alleged GRU Russian military intelligence officers in absentia in February with the attempted murder of Mr Gebrev, his son and an associate in Sofia in 2015 via “intoxication with an unidentified organophosphorus substance”. All three survived. The inquiry was reopened in 2018 after Mr Gebrev said he believed he had been poisoned with novichok, the nerve agent used that March to attack the Russian former MI6 informer Sergei Skripal and his

Source: The Times August 27, 2020 16:07 UTC