Death of Aleksei Navalny:  the Brits did it!

Death of Aleksei Navalny:  the Brits did it!

It is remarkable how an invitation to do a live television interview can change your schedule and concentrate your mind. 

This afternoon I got a WhatsApp message from TRT, Turkey’s premier English language international broadcaster with whom I had done several interviews a year ago, followed by many months of silence. That is not unusual. Broadcasters rotate experts in and rotate experts out at their pleasure.

The invitation today was to speak about breaking news, the reported death in a remote Yamalo-Nenets prison colony of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny at age 47.  A glance at the latest online edition of The Financial Times confirmed that Navalny had indeed died and set out the comments of leading Western statesmen condemning what they considered to be the latest murder by Vladimir Putin of prominent activists who oppose his rule. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, European Council President Charles Michel and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were among those who already had spoken before microphones and were reading from the same anti-Putin script.

In short, what happened in the West this afternoon was a new campaign to vilify Vladimir Putin on the world stage based on a death which was, if I may quote former British PM Theresa May, ‘highly likely’ to have been perpetrated by British Intelligence for this very purpose.

In all of the false flag operations that have been directed by the West against Russia over the past decade or more, I have argued that the old Roman investigative principle of cui bono militated against the Kremlin having been involved in any way.  So it is today:  why would Putin want to murder Navalny, when the man is now largely forgotten within Russia. Navalny is yesterday’s news and his ‘anti-corruption’ campaign is irrelevant to Russians in the midst of an existential struggle with the Collective West that is being fought on the territory of Ukraine?  However, the murder of Navalny clearly serves the interests of that same Collective West as an intended antidote to the major Soft Power coup of the Carlson Tucker interview with Vladimir Putin just a week ago and perhaps even more important, to the follow-up Tucker News Briefs showing his visits to the Kievskaya Metro Station and to an Auchan supermarket in downtown Moscow.  This was not Gilbert Doctorow publishing his travel notes of visits to St Petersburg markets and reaching 10,000 readers; it was Tucker Carlson, with a regular U.S. audience of 40 million or more for his every broadcast, and a peak of one billion views for the recent interview.

Let us go beyond the cui bono argumentation to circumstantial evidence that is damning for the Brits. As the Americans like to say, there are ‘fingerprints’ of the Brits all over this death of Navalny.

A fair number of the poisonings and other assorted deaths of people who could be said were ‘inconvenient’ to the Kremlin happened in the U.K., after all. That is where Boris Berezovsky, the exiled oligarch who opposed Putin tooth and nail, was ‘suicided’ and it occurred in 2013 at his London estate when it was widely rumored he was looking for forgiveness for his treachery and was preparing to return to Mother Russia with a trove of documents.  Earlier still, the U.K. is where the Berezovsky employee Alexander Litvinenko met his death in 2006 from polonium poisoning in a very British cuppa tea.

However, more recently there were incidents in the U.K. which bear directly on the fate of Navalny, and their timing is very relevant. I am thinking about the Novichok poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Skripal in Salisbury at the start of March 2018, ahead of the 18 March presidential elections in Russia that year, when Putin was seeking another term.

Hmm.  A terrible attack on a Putin enemy in 2018 just weeks before a Russian presidential election.  Hmm, again: the date of Putin’s next election happens to be 15-17 March.

The Skripal poisoning was shouted to the skies by the British political establishment. Can you just imagine, they said, that Putin is carrying out revenge murders on British soil!  Of course, today, everyone has forgotten about the Skripals, who seem somehow to have survived the Novichok attack which is always fatal and to have been given new identities if they were not simply dumped by MI6 into shallow graves somewhere.

But the Novichok that the Russians were said to have invented also was in production in a chemical weapons facility located not far from Salisbury.  Another detail that Western media chose to ignore.

Novichok just happens to be the poison that was allegedly used against Aleksei Navalny back in August 2020 while he was on the stump in provincial Russia working up the population to oppose the oligarchs and crooks who, he said, were running the country. Like the Skripals, Navalny miraculously survived his poisoning by Novichok. He was flown to Germany, where Angela Merkel extended a warm welcome to him and where, during his months long convalescence he oversaw the production by German crews of faked video exposés showing palaces on the Black Sea that were supposedly built for Putin.

Russian doctors at the prison colony were said to have spent half an hour today trying to revive Navalny, but in vain. He is just one more case of collateral damage in the British secret war on Russia

Time was, in the days of Tony Blair, we spoke of the British as the ‘lap dogs’ of Bush.  Today it would be more appropriate to say that the British have become the Hound of the Baskervilles, ahead of and likely outside the control of Washington.

When the link to my interview with TRT becomes available, I will post it here.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2024

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

Der Tod von Aleksei Navalny: Die Briten waren’s!

Es ist bemerkenswert, wie eine Einladung zu einem Live-Fernsehinterview den Zeitplan ändern und die Gedanken konzentrieren kann.

Heute Nachmittag erhielt ich eine WhatsApp-Nachricht von TRT, dem führenden englischsprachigen internationalen Fernsehsender der Türkei, dem ich vor einem Jahr mehrere Interviews gegeben hatte, auf die viele Monate der Stille folgten. Das ist nicht ungewöhnlich. Die Rundfunkanstalten lassen Experten nach Belieben ein- und auswechseln.

Die Einladung heute galt der aktuellen Nachricht, dass der russische Oppositionsführer Aleksei Navalny im Alter von 47 Jahren in einer abgelegenen Gefängniskolonie von Jamal- Nenets gestorben ist. Ein Blick in die jüngste Online-Ausgabe der Financial Times bestätigte, dass Nawalny tatsächlich gestorben war, und enthielt die Kommentare führender westlicher Staatsmänner, die den ihrer Ansicht nach jüngsten Mord an prominenten Aktivisten, die sich seiner Herrschaft widersetzen, durch Wladimir Putin verurteilten. US-Außenminister Antony Blinken, der Präsident des Europäischen Rates, Charles Michel, und der deutsche Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz gehörten zu denjenigen, die bereits vor Mikrofonen gesprochen hatten und das gleiche Anti-Putin-Drehbuch ablasen.

Kurz gesagt, was heute Nachmittag im Westen geschah, war eine neue Kampagne, um Wladimir Putin auf der Weltbühne zu verunglimpfen, und zwar auf der Grundlage eines Todesfalls, der, wenn ich die frühere britische Premierministerin Theresa May zitieren darf, “höchstwahrscheinlich” vom britischen Geheimdienst zu eben diesem Zweck verübt worden ist.

Bei allen Operationen unter falscher Flagge, die der Westen in den letzten zehn Jahren gegen Russland durchgeführt hat, habe ich argumentiert, dass der alte römische Ermittlungsgrundsatz cui bono dagegen spricht, dass der Kreml in irgendeiner Weise beteiligt war. So ist es auch heute: Warum sollte Putin Nawalny ermorden wollen, wenn der Mann in Russland inzwischen weitgehend vergessen ist. Nawalny ist Schnee von gestern, und seine “Anti-Korruptions”-Kampagne ist für die Russen inmitten eines existenziellen Kampfes mit dem kollektiven Westen, der auf dem Territorium der Ukraine ausgetragen wird, irrelevant. Die Ermordung Nawalnys dient jedoch eindeutig den Interessen desselben kollektiven Westens als beabsichtigtes Gegenmittel zu dem großen Soft-Power-Coup des Carlson-Tucker-Interviews mit Wladimir Putin vor einer Woche und, was vielleicht noch wichtiger ist, zu den darauf folgenden Tucker News Briefs, die seine Besuche in der Kiewer Metrostation und in einem Auchan-Supermarkt in der Moskauer Innenstadt zeigen. Das war nicht Gilbert Doctorow, der seine Reisenotizen über Besuche auf den Märkten von St. Petersburg veröffentlicht hat und damit 10.000 Leser erreichte; das war Tucker Carlson, mit einem regelmäßigen US-Publikum von 40 Millionen oder mehr für jede seiner Sendungen und einem Spitzenwert von einer Milliarde Aufrufen für das jüngste Interview.

Lassen Sie uns über die cui bono-Argumentation hinausgehen und uns den Indizien zuwenden, die für die Briten belastend sind. Wie die Amerikaner zu sagen pflegen, sind die “Fingerabdrücke” der Briten überall auf dem Tod von Nawalny zu finden.

Eine ganze Reihe von Vergiftungen und anderen Todesfällen von Menschen, die für den Kreml “unbequem” waren, ereigneten sich schließlich in Großbritannien. Dort wurde Boris Beresowski, der Oligarch im Exil, der sich Putin mit Händen und Füßen widersetzt hatte, “umgebracht”, und zwar im Jahr 2013 in seinem Londoner Anwesen, als weithin gemunkelt wurde, er suche Vergebung für seinen Verrat und bereite sich auf die Rückkehr nach Mütterchen Russland mit einem Haufen Dokumente vor. Noch früher war Großbritannien der Ort, an dem der Beresowski-Mitarbeiter Alexander Litwinenko 2006 an einer Polonium-Vergiftung in einer sehr britischen Tasse Tee starb.

In jüngster Zeit gab es jedoch Vorfälle in Großbritannien, die sich direkt auf das Schicksal von Nawalny ausgewirkt haben, und ihr Zeitpunkt ist sehr relevant. Ich denke an die Nowitschok-Vergiftung des ehemaligen russischen Spions Alexander Skripal in Salisbury Anfang März 2018, vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Russland am 18. März jenes Jahres, als Putin nach dem Interregnum, als Dmitri Medwedew Präsident war, an die Macht zurückkehrte.

Hmm. Ein schrecklicher Anschlag auf einen Putin-Feind im Jahr 2018, nur wenige Wochen vor den russischen Präsidentschaftswahlen. Noch einmal: Putins nächste Wahl findet zufällig am 15. und 17. März statt.

Die Skripal-Vergiftung wurde vom britischen politischen Establishment in den Himmel geschrien. Stellen Sie sich vor, sagten sie, Putin verübt Rachemorde auf britischem Boden! Natürlich hat heute jeder die Skripals vergessen, die den Nowitschok-Angriff, der immer tödlich ist, irgendwie überlebt zu haben scheinen und neue Identitäten erhalten haben, wenn sie nicht einfach vom MI6 irgendwo in flachen Gräbern entsorgt wurden.

Aber das Nowitschok, das die Russen erfunden haben sollen, wurde auch in einer Chemiewaffenanlage in der Nähe von Salisbury hergestellt. Ein weiteres Detail, das die westlichen Medien lieber ignorieren.

Nowitschok ist zufällig das Gift, das angeblich im August 2020 gegen Alexej Nawalny eingesetzt wurde, als er in der russischen Provinz auf der Straße stand und die Bevölkerung gegen die Oligarchen und Gauner aufrief, die seiner Meinung nach das Land regierten. Wie die Skripals überlebte Navalny wie durch ein Wunder seine Vergiftung durch Nowitschok. Er wurde nach Deutschland geflogen, wo Angela Merkel ihn herzlich empfing und wo er während seiner monatelangen Rekonvaleszenz die Produktion von gefälschten Videoaufnahmen beaufsichtigte, die Paläste am Schwarzen Meer zeigten, die angeblich für Putin gebaut worden waren.

Russische Ärzte in der Gefängniskolonie sollen heute eine halbe Stunde lang versucht haben, Nawalny wiederzubeleben – vergeblich. Er ist nur ein weiterer Fall von Kollateralschaden im geheimen britischen Krieg gegen Russland.

Früher, zu Zeiten von Tony Blair, nannte man die Briten die “Schoßhündchen” von Bush. Heute wäre es angemessener zu sagen, dass die Briten zum Hund von Baskerville geworden sind, der Washington voraus ist und sich wahrscheinlich der Kontrolle durch dieses Land entzieht.

Sobald der Link zu meinem Interview mit TRT verfügbar ist, werde ich ihn hier veröffentlichen.

38 thoughts on “Death of Aleksei Navalny:  the Brits did it!

  1. Stunning analysis, and the timing is far too convenient. We’ll have to wait for the autopsy reports, which will of course be pooh-poohed by the Western stenographers.

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  2. “Like the Skripals, Navalny miraculously survived his poisoning by Novichok.”

    Indeed. I recall the military NBC training we received in the early 1970’s included the advice that exposure through air or exposed skin to the standard nerve agents of the time such as Sarin would kill you in 7 (seven) seconds.

    Which, co-incidentally, was also the same advice the six of us who spend two weeks as test subjects at the UK Porton Down facility in the spring of 1974 received.

    The notion that a nerve agent purported to be far more deadly than Sarin was released into the atmosphere in a crowded town center with no fatalities is pure malice in blunderland.

    Even more fanciful is The Official Narrative (TON) that this alleged wonder nerve agent which is claimed to be more deadly than Sarin (a) survived in pure form exposed to the environment in the vicinity for a considerable number of days with no deterioration in quality to ‘enable’ international investigators to ‘find’ it’ in pure form; and (b) still resulted in no widespread contamination leading to the inevitable fatalities actual real world objective based science would predict.

    Even the fairy stories from the old BBC Jackanory kids series are more believable than the pile of steaming codswallop that is the UK Establishment’s Official Narrative on this obvious to a blind man on a galloping horse staged event.

    On the present trajectory it surely cannot be too long before the UK is renamed Numptyland.

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  3. Kay Weir – Thanks for the brilliant deduction about Navalny’s death – The Brits did it!
    Yes, that is very, very “highly likely.” The cap fits. So many poisonings, and allegations in Britain against Russia.
    The Brits have a fetish of undeserved animosity towards Russia. The famed Churchill, even wanted to nuke the former Soviet Union, at the end of WW2. What hateful ingratitude! when it was the Soviet Union that faced two-thirds of Nazi Germany’s military, and did the most to defeat the Nazis
    and suffered by far the most deaths as a result of WW2.
    And this coming week, journalist Julian Assange, imprisoned in the UK for years, faces a battle in a UK court to stop his extradition to America. America wants to put him in prison for 175 years for exposing war crimes, committed by its soldiers in illegal wars perpetrated by America, and its allies, including Britain. Navalny’s death performs another task in distracting from this case important for the life of Julian Assange and democracy and press freedom, which seems almost extinguished in western countries.

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  4. The Brits have for too many centuries now been the worst enemy of every country on the European continent, not least Russia. It remains so today.

    Forgotten it seems, or maybe not known to most commentaters and analysts, are the 2 wars perpetrated by Britain against Russia in Crimea in the 19th century. (Florence Nightengale however is still remembered, though vaguely). Then as now, Britain’s purpose was to deprive Russia of its only warm water port. Britain won the first Crimean war, leading to the catastrophe of the Voyage of Death, when Russia’s Baltic fleet was forced to travel around the Cape in Africa, across the Indian Ocean, up through the Chinese sea – a 10 month voyage in which ships were sunk and more than half of the sailors lost – to defend Port Arthur from the attacking Japanese who destroyed Russia’s Pacific fleet in harbour : an attack most probably engineered by the British. Thus Russia’s 3 navies were decimated by the ever envious, manipulative, predatory and honour-free Brits, and Russia’s determination to hold Sebastopol has never wavered to this day.

    Further, while the world’s attention was riveted in 2014 on the Maidan slaughter / coup d’etat, the real action was taking place in Crimea as the Russians defeated – yet again – another attack on Crimea.

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  5. Timing is everything. What better way to take the fall of Avdiika off the front page. And his wife mysteriously invited to speak on the world stage in Munich on the same day. Oh, unless we forget the genocide and Gaza continues.

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  6. And any hypothesis on how James Bond may have actually done the deed? Because, largely forgotten as Zakharova clains he was, Navalny was in an Arctic prison. Supposedly secure and surveilled. If he was so irrelevant, why was he in a prison thousands of miles from Moscow. I’m just curious. And a bit impressed with the British Secret Service, for their incredible outreach.

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  7. Of course we do not know how the murder was organized but we can make informed guesses. First, for money any of his fellow prisoners would have gladly helped poison him. Second, the Brits probably worked through Ukrainian intelligence operatives on the ground in Russia to bring into the colony whatever substance was used to induce the blood clot that killed him. There are a great many Ukrainian agents all over Russia, all speaking native Russian without a cockney accent. Incredible outreach? Not really. Where there is a will, there is a way.

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  8. Surely it’s not impossible for Britain, or a proxy representative of Britain in Russia to fix some poison
    and poison Navalny in prison in the Arctic region. Afterall, Britain has managed with a great deal of outlandish violence to create an empire in India and in other regions. Didn’t Navalny go out on a walk on the day he died? Could something have happened then, or later after his return. Prison guards, and other employees in the prison are other avenues for Britain to poison Navalny. – Kay

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  9. Mr. Doctorow has always impressed me with his keen eye & honest assessments. We need more knowledgable & keen observations of critical events like this poisoning case. Many thanks to Mr. Doctorow…..!!!!!

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  10. Absolutely the Brits. They have a massive debt and very few means of reducing it other than stealing other countries resources. Russia is their prime target. In the 1990s they had a free hand but all was spoilt when Putin came to power.

    The Skripal case has their fingerprints all over it. Skripal wanted to go back to Russia I presume because his wife had just died and his mother and daughter were in Russia. He must have held sensitive information from his work with MI6 that would be interesting to the Russian state. The two Russian guys and his daughter were sent to help him leave the UK. MI6 got wind of it and debilitated him with fentanyl. To make the event damaging to Russia the use of Novichok was added as well as the death of Dawn Burgess whose inquest/public inquiry is being held in great secrecy after six years.

    “BATTING IN THE DARK” — LORD HUGHES ORDERS THE NOVICHOK PUBLIC INQUIRY TO TURN INTO A SECRET FARCE BEFORE THE PUBLIC HEARINGS BEGIN
    https://johnhelmer.net/batting-in-the-dark-lord-hughes-orders-the-novichok-public-inquiry-to-turn-into-a-secret-farce-before-the-public-hearings-begin/

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