Elvira Vikhareva as Alexei Navalny? Anti-Putin, young and ready to do anything to fight the regime of the Russian tsar, poisoned with salts of heavy metals ….
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Elvira Vikhareva as Alexei Navalny? Opponents of Putin, young and ready to do anything to fight the regime of the Russian tsar, poisoned with salts of heavy metals. The fights she fought at home would be the reason why the 32-year-old opposition politician would be hospitalized with serious consequences. Not new for the Kremlin, which is used to using similar methods to silence the opposition, as the case of Alexei Navalny shows. According to the Russian agency Sota, the poisoning of Vikhareva took place a few months ago.
The poisoned dissident: the symptoms
She herself told of the symptoms that first appeared between late November and early December and then returned in February. Stomach pain, increased heart rate, numbness in extremities, muscle spasms, fainting and hair loss. These are just some of the consequences for the young politician, who avoided showing her face in recent interviews precisely because of the effects of the poison on her body. Laboratory analyzes revealed that Vikhareva’s blood contained potassium dichromate, a highly toxic and carcinogenic substance.
threats and pressures
The 32-year-old had previously said he had suffered threats and pressure in the past. Originally from Irkutsk, Siberia, Vikhareva worked in television for a while and studied journalism. Then came the political struggle, which she hadn’t even gotten close to in her 20s during the 2011 protests against voter fraud, in 2019 she was still on the streets against the banning of dozens of candidates from elections. She also suffered the same fate in 2022, as she writes on her website: She wanted to run for the city council of her Moscow district, but a court prevented her from doing so because there were irregularities in her registration documents. The year before he tried to get into the State Duma, but according to the results of the electronic vote he lost to the TV presenter and candidate for “United Russia” Timothy Bazhenov. In an interview with Le Monde a few months ago, he said he had no right to condemn Russian politicians who left fearing for their lives. With her, however, it was different. He knew the risks, “from jail to poison,” but he felt a moral obligation to stay, especially now.
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