Poisoning: It didn’t start with Alexei Navalny

Poisoned: Russian opposition politician and Putin's chief critic Alexei Navalny. [Archives]

He sipped through a cup of tea, in a café at the airport, amongst some of his ‘ close allies’. Perhaps, talking politics and the need to change Russia.

But, a few minutes later, Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader, started experiencing excruciating pain.