TV presenter and Russian state media propagandist, Dmitry Kiselyov spent the night in a room at the Xander Hotel in Tomsk, where Alexei Navalny stayed shortly before he felt sick. The production, filmed on September 23, was aired by Vesti Nedeli on Rossiya 1.
“It is believed, at least so we are told that it was from this room that they took three bottles of water, one of which was thickly smeared with Novichok chemical warfare agent,” Kiselyov said while in a hotel room. According to the presenter, if this substance were really used in the room, it would only be possible to get into the room “in a deaf chemical protection suit with an autonomous life support system” – while Kiselyov was reporting in a dressing room.
“If room 239 really had such a strong poison, I would not be sitting in front of you right now.”
Kiselyov is the head of the state-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya and is host of the Russian state-owned Rossiya 1 TV “Vesti” (news) program.
it is not surprising that all aparatchiks lie, just watch some of old Eisenstein’s movies and all becomes clear. Ad immemoriam all rulers in Russia were ruthless, this runs in their blood. I always heard that in every Russian there is a drop of Mongolian blood and these were blood thirsty folks.
I’m afraid that I’m not convinced by this incoherent attempted assassination allegation. If the Russian authorities wanted him dead, then Navalny would be dead. None of the other Presidential candidates were disposed of in the last Russian elections of 2018. Navalny’s candidature was denied due to alleged past criminal convictions.
And why would Russia use an unreliable nerve agent that would consequently point the accusing finger of Western Europe and the USA at Russia? It doesn’t make sense. That Navalny is a sore loser makes more sense.