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Pussy Riot activist claims Russian intelligence agencies poisoned him
Updated On: 28 September, 2018 08:08 AM IST | Moscow | Agencies
Moscow has scoffed at a report by an investigative group claiming one of the suspects in the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal was a highly decorated colonel in Russian military intelligence
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A leading activist from Russian protest group Pussy Riot who is believed to have been poisoned has laid the blame on the government's intelligence services. "The poisoning was carried out so professionally that no other conclusion is possible," Pyotr Verzilov told the BBC on Thursday.
He said he believed he was most likely attacked either by Russia's FSB domestic security agency or GRU military intelligence. The activist also told Germany's Bild newspaper they could have tried a "new cocktail of poisons" on him as his symptoms were more immediate "than others".
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