Over the past year, a fresh wave of poisonings has affected journalists and activists who have left Russia, according to a journalistic investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat. In October 2022, Novaya Gazieta and Medusa writer Elena Kostiuchenko was poisoned in Munich, a week later in Tbilisi, Echo of Moscow writer Irina Bablojan had almost identical symptoms, and in the spring of 2023 Natalia Arno, head of the Free Russia Foundation, was poisoned with a neurotoxic substance. The Insider studied the circumstances of these incidents in item along with doctors - experts on toxic substances. Many of the Russians who decided to emigrate for political reasons cease to decently monitor their safety and become easy targets for Russian peculiar services. possible victims may not realize they have been given toxins and so neglect to study to the appropriate doctors, and erstwhile they have figured out, it is usually impossible to detect traces of them.
