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russia and the west. heather conley is director for europe and russia at the centre for strategic and international studies. she told us the doctors currently working on alexei navalny are unlikely to discover exactly what it was that made him ill. i think it's highly unlikely that we will be able to have the definitive answer. in part this is why the russian authorities, through the russian doctors in the hospital prevented alexei navalny from travelling. in orderfor prevented alexei navalny from travelling. in order for the poison to dissipate. so we would be unable to take samples of his blood after the initial poisoning. it will be very difficult. the good news is this hospital in berlin treated a similar russian opposition figure in 2018 with evidently nearly exactly the same symptoms, so hopefully they will be able to draw some conclusions. tragically this hospital is getting a great deal of expertise and russian poisoning. is alexei navalny a serious threat to the...