Alexei Navalny dupes FSB agent into admitting role in poisoning
By DW
25 December 2020 |
3:00 pm
Prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he tricked a secret agent into admitting that Russian spies sought to kill him with poison.
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