The ECHR ordered Russia to pay Navalny compensation for refusing to investigate its poisoning

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recognized the refusal of the Russian authorities to investigate the poisoning of the opposition Alexei Navalny in August 2020.

According to the decision of the ECHR published on Tuesday, Russia must pay Navalny 40 thousand euros as compensation for moral damage. The court ruled that the right of a politician to a fair and unbiased investigation was violated.

In March 2022, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe because of its aggression against Ukraine. By decree of Vladimir Putin, the country does not execute the decision of the ECHR made from March 15, 2022.

• On August 20, 2020, Alexei Navalny was hospitalized in an unconscious state to the Omsk hospital. Companions of the policy claim that he was poisoned by the Russian special services. On August 22, a special moth from Germany evacuated Navalny to Berlin. In the Hospital "Shary", experts found in the body a politician traces of a novice of the "Novice" fighting substance.
• The publications Bellingcat, The Insider, CNN and Der Spiegel issued an investigation that stated that Alexei Navalny poisoned a special group of FSB officers who followed him for several years. Navalny himself concluded that such an operation could not be carried out without the sanction of the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• The Russian authorities deny that Navalny was poisoned, the criminal case was not instituted.
• The opposition, who returned to Russia after rehabilitation in Germany, is now in the colony, he is judged by several criminal cases, including those related to the activities of the Corruption Fund. Supporters of the politician are persecuted, many of them left the country.