Britain’s Sunday Times delivered an exclusive so fantastical this weekend that even the most committed Russia-bashers stayed quiet. The claim sparked a furious response from the Russian doctors smeared by the leading UK outlet.
Citing the usual anonymous intelligence officials, the newspaper reported that staff at the Siberian hospital where Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny was admitted in August with suspected poisoning allowed members of the Security Services to enter the stricken activist’s ward. They claim that these officials administered him with a supposed second dose of Novichok, after it appeared that he would recover from the initial alleged poisoning.
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