Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is in a penal colony in the Vladimir region, on Saturday, August 20, the second anniversary of the attempt on his life, posted a post on Facebook.

“For the second time I celebrate my second birthday. The day I was killed, but for some reason I was not killed,” wrote the politician. As he further notes, despite the fact that “almost all of the direct participants in the group of assassins have been identified” and “all of them are FSB officers”, no criminal case has been brought into the crime, and there has been no official investigation.

“So far, I still don’t understand what the position of the Russian authorities is: Navalny was not poisoned by Novichok, he went into a coma on his own, or Navalny was poisoned by Novichok, but not by us, but by Western intelligence. services for provocation purposes Officials, starting at the highest level – from Putin, strictly adhere to both versions at the same time, “says Alexei Navalny.

On the Bykov and Kara-Murza poisonings

In this regard, he recalls the attempts of the Russian special services to poison the Russian writer and poet Dmitry Bykov, the oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza, as well as the death of the economist, leader of the social and political movement “New Russia” Nikita Isaev, journalist and human rights activist Timur Kuashev, scientist and public figure Ruslan Magomedragimov. “It is proved that in them (special service officers.- Ed.) to account – there were several murders”, underlined the oppositionist.

No one from the FSB group was held accountable, Navalny said. “Except, perhaps, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, an unlucky chemist who told me the details of the assassination attempt over the phone. He disappeared and it appears that he himself was simply killed,” writes the oppositionist.

On the nature of Vladimir Putin’s regime

Also, Navalny speaks harshly about the Russian government in his post. In his opinion, these crimes showed “not only his criminality, but also his dysfunctionality, his failure (Vladimir Putin.- Red.) regime”, which “strongly influenced the entire political system of Russia. This system got rid of any disguise and, at the end of January 2021, it became repressive and authoritarian without reservation,” emphasizes Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.