FB post by Emilia Slabunova, 3.09.2020

Alexei Navalny [opposition politician and one of vocal critics of the regime] was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group, the German government said in a statement. Angela Merkel, in her commentary, stated unequivocally that “it was an attempt to silence him [Navalny]”. Unambiguous, because if it were not for a chemical warfare agent, one could think of the Novosibirsk construction mafia or the Tomsk swindlers, about whom Navalny and his team were filming an investigation during their trip there. But we are talking about poisoning with a military nerve agent, which is inaccessible to an ordinary mafioso and which should not be there at all.

Representatives of the customer are raving that “it is a provocation of the West”. I would like to remind to everyone who is ready to believe in this nonsense, that we hardly have anything left which is not poisoned:

– the Arctic has just been poisoned before our eyes;

– and before that, the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation announced that virtually all the riversin Russia were poisoned by sewage;

– the Ministry of Industry and Trade admitted that counterfeit in the food market reaches from 20 to 70 per cent in different groups of foodstuffs;

– toxic landfills occupy an area comparable to Switzerland;

– there are thousands of fake diplomas, dissertations, driving licenses, technical inspections, minutes of meetings of condominiums owners and public hearings, and criminal cases in Russia;

– every day crowds of scammers lure dozens of millions of roubles from people;

– corruption has reached an astronomical scope;

– streams of media fake news poison citizens from TV screens…

The list is endless. Whose “provocations” are these?! These are the fruits of the activities of those who shout the loudest about patriotism.

The “poisoning” of the present and the future of Russia has acquired such a scale that the list now includes those politicians who oppose it. But it only brings the end of the customers [of poisonings] closer.

Russia needs detoxification. And we should start with the recultivation of the political system.

I am wishing health to Alexei Navalny and strength and patience to his family!

EMILIA SLABUNOVA

is member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, Chair of the party in 2015-2019. Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia. Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Honoured Teacher of Russia