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title: "Nalvany poisoned in hotel say aides"
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#  Nalvany poisoned in hotel say aides

 Written by Gwyn Winfield on 17 September 2020.

It was announced on Nalvany's Instragram account this morning that traces of Novichik have been found on a water bottle in his hotel room in Tomsk. This has apprently been tested and confirmed by a German laboratory.

According to the Instagram post "… It is precisely on the bottle from the Tomsk hotel room that a German laboratory found traces of Novichok. And later three more laboratories which took Alexei’s samples confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with it \[toxic agent\]. Now we understand: It was done before he left his room to reach the airport,"

A video was also posted showing members of his team searching the room he had just left in the Xander Hotel.

 [Threat](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/threat), [Chemical](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/chemical), [Novichok](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/novichok)

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