With Putin's arrival: Russia has become a leader in the number of political poisoning - research
The report is based on the study of 78 cases of political poisoning that occurred in the last 450 years, including "successful murder and attempts by murder through poisoning. " The founder of the site poisonreporting. org Sofia Brauder emphasizes that many poisonings remain unknown, especially in countries with authoritarian power and dictatorship. For example, only two recorded cases in China indicate that there is simply no public information about this method of decomposition with opponents.
In addition, it is noted that in some cases it is possible to determine that a person was poisoned only if he has found herself in another country where there are no obstacles to studying his condition and publishing relevant information. As an example in the study, the case of Alexei Navalny, who felt bad in Russia and received first aid there, but determined that he was poisoned by a neuro-paralytic agent "Novic", only after Russian politics was taken to hospital in Germany .
During the twentieth century, a maximum of one case was recorded in the world in some years, but in the XXI it was often several years of poisoning a year in a row. Particularly sharp growth is observed in 2004–2006. (Five every year). In 2006, for example, former FSB employee Alexander Litvinenko died in London. The investigation and the court in the UK showed that Litvinenko was poisoned by Polonii-210 as a result of the Special Operation of the FSB.
"You may have to make me silence, but this silence has its price," Putin Litvinenko said in the last statement, the authors of the study say. The study also emphasizes that the increase in the number of recorded cases can be "directly related to poisoning organized by Russia after coming to power in 1999, Vladimir Putin, who began to use poison (in the past characterized by KGB tools) to suppress opponents.
" The database shows that the Russian Federation uses poisoning as a method of murder more often than any other state, and that "hunting for many victims is in Europe. " This, in particular, explains that the UK ranks second in the number of cases found - 10. In addition to Litvinenko, it is, for example, a story with Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Five more cases were recorded in Germany, two in France, Switzerland and Ukraine.