A new possible case of poisoning shakes Russia, with the enemy as the protagonist Elvira Vikhareva. The 32-year-old Siberian has been battling the symptoms for the past few months and recently found traces of a powerful oxidant in her blood.
Elvira Vikhareva poisoned, the case
Elvira Vikhareva herself reported the possible case of poisoning. The woman would have been the victim of an attempt Potassium dichromate poisoning, a powerful oxidizing agent used in a variety of industrial processes, from leather tanning to making cement or detergents, as a pigment in ceramics and glass, as a laboratory reagent. There are many ways to come into contact with it, but the type of poisoning that got the 32-year-old was due to one, doctors say Long-term exposure to heavy metal salts.
The woman had initially accused some symptoms in December, with abdominal pain, increased heart rate, numbness, seizures and fainting. The investigations carried out at the end of December and disseminated by the Sota Telegram channel in the last few days confirmed high concentrations of the toxin it can cause cancer, infertility and genetic mutations.
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Who is Elvira Vikhareva?
Originally from Eastern Siberia, Vikhareva studied communications and then plunged into the world of politics against the liberal Yabloko party. He worked closely with the well-known opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov and was also involved in founding the “Party of Change”, today’s “Citizens’ Initiative”.
In 2021, she ran for election to the State Duma in Moscow’s one-man district of Babushkinsky and was beaten by ruling party candidate and TV presenter Timofeiy Bazhenov, after receiving just 2.5%.
In 2022, he tried to run in local elections in Moscow’s Yakimanka district, but his candidacy was withdrawn due to irregularities in collecting signatures. Vikhareva is also the author of a popular video blog with over 52,800 subscribersThe.
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The case reminiscent of Navalny’s
The story starring Elvira Vikhareva is reminiscent of the much better-known case of the politician Alexei Navalnywho lost consciousness on August 20, 2020 shortly after takeoff of the flight that was supposed to take him from Tomsk to Moscow.
Even today, this poisoning case, caused by a nerve gas, causes discussions and episodes of this kind are often repeated. Not only Vikhareva, with the writer Dmitry Bykov, who on April 17, 2019 on the flight from Yekaterinburg to Ufa was hospitalized with an illness.
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