Last month, five European governments shared the results of an investigation into the death of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny in a Siberian prison. They said Russia’s government was responsible. That’s not surprising. But the means used to kill him were something new: a substance derived from South American frogs. From London, reporters Ilya Kolmanovsky and Ilya Marritz report it’s a gruesome new entry in the long history of Russian chemical killings.
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