No good reason to doubt the toxicity reports. However, a way more likely explanation is skipped by “the media” and believers. That this insanely exotic method to kill someone who is completely under ones control already is more likely a trace to a powerful painkiller. That Navalny was hooked on various substances is not a secret and would be required to carry on like he did in any case. In fact, epibatidine is for people with money a great painkiller, better than morphine, especially to transport,  keep and administer in the micro dosage which are the only viable option in the places Navalny was kept. His cult members, or at least the few intelligent, ruthless ones who would “handle” him, are using a bad outcome, flipping it upside down. It’s even possible Navalny had this stuff knowingly to overdose if he felt it was the end of the line. Epibatidine would be one of the very few substances in existence on the high-end market to smuggle into that facility in the quantities required. Hence this is the most likely scenario. There’s no explanation of why any enemy would use this exotic chemical against him. Although the stage was set of course: radioactive substances, high-end nerve gas and now this. Perhaps there’s a competition amongst the various killers where you get points for originality and insanity? This possibility cannot be excluded of course. The world contains these kind people too. It’s just not the first thing to assume.

Posted by: JohnDowser | Feb 15 2026 8:58 utc | 103

It might just be correct that Navalny was poisoned by frog poison epibatidine. If the French and others say it was. Because they supplied it.
The last person to see Navalny alive was his wife.  Then followed a series of odd happenings, that include a girlfriend carrying a bottle full of “water” through various customs posts to present as “evidence”. Then disappearing. The plastic bottle may have been “refilled” at arrival in Europe, if slightly blurry photos are to be believed. Navalny’s wife, who then tried to change her nominal “status” as bereaved wife into resistant, but apparently fell foul of the divine bottle (If memeory serves me correctly)
 
Remember that Navalny, who was not a nice person (rascist etc) was becoming a handicap for an alternative political party. Losing members etc. He could have been considered a better bet as a potential “martyr”, by the EU secret services. As this statement infers – he still is “useful” as a martyr.

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 15 2026 9:04 utc | 105

“Numerous mysterious poisonings and attempts have existed since the 1960s, not all of them successful when we look at Castro”@karlof1 | Feb 14 2026 18:47 utc | 24
So Karlof you trust the CIA when they claim to have aimed to murder Castro but failed every time?After all it was the CIA-boss, Allen Dulles, who held back the info about Castro being a communist that helped to bring that four-time Hollywood B-actor to Power.Talented actors do gain admirers

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Feb 15 2026 10:54 utc | 107

The photo is a plant. I have it on reliable authority that the man in the photo is not English, and cannot be an MI6 official.
Ergo, he is not the killer of Navalny.

Posted by: BM | Feb 15 2026 11:21 utc | 109

Posted by: JohnDowser | Feb 15 2026 8:58 utc | 112

Thx. Learned somehing…Another Day not wasted…

Posted by: Nobody | Feb 15 2026 12:02 utc | 111

persons with ‘perfect teeth‘ can only swallow not chew.

Posted by: pepe | Feb 15 2026 12:37 utc | 113

In a dramatic press conference held at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said that analysis of samples from Navalny’s body had found the presence of epibatidine – a deadly toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America. (The Independent)

 
And not one single journalist from any western MSM asked the simple question how they had come in possession of those samples from his body. Not one.

Posted by: Avtonom | Feb 15 2026 13:07 utc | 115

Hey. That picture looks like the ones from the “Science & Voyages” magazine my father was buying seventy years ago. The poison was then called curare.

Posted by: Richard L | Feb 15 2026 13:27 utc | 117

Rainforest frogs in Siberia? This global warming thing might be real, after all!

Posted by: Marvin | Feb 15 2026 13:51 utc | 119

So. Yvette Cooper.
 
UK Home Secretary. Oxford. Rhodes Scholar. Very clever woman. Mind you not that clever, she is married to breakfast TV scrotum Ed Balls.
 
She stands up at the Munich Security Conference which this year is competing with The Edinburgh Fringe Festival on which can produce most outrageous comedy. Did you see the Dutchman who claimed to have a talking dog? He’s in charge of NATO!! No, not the dog – the Dutchman.
 
He is.
 
Really. I’m not joking. I don’t do jokes.
 
Anyway. Yvette Cooper says the Russian state killed Alexei Navalny. With poison. And not just any poison. A special poison. A poison found in… South American frogs.
 
Dart frogs.
 
Little colourful frogs. In the jungle.
 
Not in Russia.
 
Now. Yvette Cooper knows this. She tells us this. “Epibatidine is found in dart frogs in South America. It is not found naturally in Russia.”
 
Right.
 
So. The poison is in his body. It’s from frogs. The frogs are in South America. The frogs are not in Russia. Therefore… someone brought it there.
 
And the only people who could bring it there… are the Russians. Because they run the prison.
 
That’s it. That’s the logic. That’s the case.
 
Now. When you say this out loud. In a room. With other humans. Something happens in the brain. A small… twitch. Because if the poison is from frogs, and the frogs are in South America, and the frogs in captivity don’t even produce it—which the statement also says, by the way—then we’re not talking about frogs. We’re talking about a lab. A lab that made it. Synthetically.
 
And lots of countries have labs. Britain has labs. France has labs. Germany has labs. The Dutch have labs—they’re very efficient, the Dutch.
 
So the lab tells us nothing. The frog tells us nothing. The only thing that tells us something is the prison. He was in a Russian prison. And the Russian state runs Russian prisons.
 
But here’s the thing. He was already in prison. He was serving a sentence for embezzling the USAid NGO funds he’d been given. Don’t tell the Ukrainians! Navalny was locked up. Contained. Neutralised. Removed from politics. Forgotten, irrelevant.
 
And VV Putin and the Russian state chose that moment. That precise moment. To kill him. With frog poison. From South America. Synthesised in a lab. Administered…somehow. In a maximum security penal colony. In Siberia. The Russians then released the body of Navalny to his family so they could provide a dignified funeral. The Russians not realising the psychotic alcohol fuelled wife would hand the body to Yvette Cooper for her to perform her South American frog toxin hunt / post mortem.
 
Does that sound… plausible? Does it sound like a plan the Russian government might consider? A plan you’d pitch? “Comrades, we have him in a cage, in the Arctic, under 24-hour guard. Shall we just leave him there? No. Let’s commission a highly complex synthetic neurotoxin from a classified lab, sneak it past our own guards, and apply it to a man who is already completely under our control. Also, the neurotoxin should come from frogs. South American dart frogs.”
 
And Yvette Cooper—remember Yvette Cooper married to the breakfast TV scrotum Ed Balls?—Yvette Cooper is the person who this very week had her decision to ban a protest group ruled unlawful by the UK High Court. She banned Palestine Action who were protesting against the Israeli war crimes and genocide of Palestinians. Three thousand peaceful UK pensioners arrested as ‘terrorists’. High Court Judges said: that was wrong. That was unlawful. It’s as if she needs a flamboyant distraction from the Mighty Wurlitzer.
 
So when Yvette Cooper stands up and says “only Russia had the means, motive and opportunity”… some people might think: hang on. You said that before. About other things. And you were wrong. Legally wrong. Officially wrong. High Court wrong.
 
But this time it’s different. This time there’s a frog.
 
And the frog is South American. And the frog is not in Russia. And the poison is in Navalny’s body because Yvette Cooper says so, “trust us” she says. It’s in Navalny, the convict and neo Nazi rally headline act. The frog poison is in his dead body. And the only way the poison could be in his body is if… someone brought it.
 
Yvette Cooper says that it couldn’t come from the National Endowment for Democracy and the other pissed off, short changed USAid NGOs that funded him and Shah nepo grandson Pahlavi, Juan Guido, or the Joker woman; no the only people who could bring it are… the Russians.
 
Unless… unless a tribesman from the Amazon rainforest… travelled 7,000 miles… to Siberia… with a blowgun… evaded all security… and shot a man who was already in a cage.
 
Which is… also possible.
 
I mean, like Yvette Cooper’s fairytale it’s also not likely. But it’s possible. In the same way that I’m possible. And you’re possible. And Yvette Cooper is possible.
 
But if that tribesman did exist—naked, painted, blowgun at the ready, frozen to the ground at minus twenty—if he existed… wouldn’t he be the one with the means? The motive? The opportunity?
 
Wouldn’t he be… the only one?
 
But we’ll never know. Because Yvette Cooper didn’t mention him. She mentioned the frogs. And the Russians. And the prison.
 
And she stood there. In Munich. With her allies Zelensky, Starmer, Merz, Macron, Stubb, Kallas, Von Der Leyen, Tusk, the human butt plug Mark Rutte. And they all agreed.
 
“Only Russia.”

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Feb 15 2026 14:01 utc | 121

I believe the next time Navalny is murdered it will be by Putin in the library with a candlestick!

Posted by: Hmck | Feb 15 2026 14:21 utc | 123

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Feb 15 2026 4:18 utc | 94
Did Michael Tracy approve of this article?

Posted by: Deniz | Feb 15 2026 15:08 utc | 125

While Western governments frequently foreground the cases of Sergei Magnitsky—who died in Russian custody on November 16, 2009, from blunt force trauma and associated injuries (including severe beatings, denial of medical care for pancreatitis and other conditions, as detailed in post-mortem examinations and independent reviews)—and Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024, under disputed circumstances (officially listed as natural causes like arrhythmia, btw epibatidine was indeed found to be 100–200 times more potent than morphine at blocking pain in animal studies), these deaths are often deployed within broader geopolitical narratives about human rights violations, targeted sanctions (e.g., the Magnitsky Act), and accountability for adversaries.
 
Yet western international institutions have faced scrutiny as well. At the UN Detention Unit (UNDU) in Scheveningen, The Hague—used by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 1993 onward—a number of detainees died in custody during the tribunal’s active years. Reliable reporting, including from Balkan Insight in 2016, indicates that 12 defendants died while on trial, awaiting sentence, or serving sentences, predominantly from natural causes (e.g., heart conditions in an ageing population with an average detainee age around 63) or suicide. High-profile examples include former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, who died of a myocardial infarction (heart attack) on March 11, 2006, at age 64; official Dutch autopsy and tribunal inquiries (including toxicological tests) confirmed natural causes with no poison or foul play, though suspicions of medical neglect or inadequate care persisted in Serbian discourse and conspiracy narratives. The larger point is not equivalence but consistency: if deaths in custody—whether involving alleged mistreatment, denial of care, or disputed circumstances—become instruments in political argument and sanctions policy, the standard of scrutiny and accountability should be applied across the board, without selective emphasis driven by geopolitical interests.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 15 2026 15:15 utc | 127

When did the UK and its partners have access to the Navalny’s body?
Navalnaya only visited him twice in 2021 when he was in prison, and those visits were to a corrective colony near Vladimir.
Does anyone think she got a sample of Navalny’s body fluids when, say, they were swopping spit? I hardly think so. And in any case, that was 5 years ago.
April 2021: She saw him at the IK-2 penal colony in Pokrov.
August 2021: She spent three days with him at the same facility.
Does anyone think he got his leg over with her during the second visit and she fucked off with a sperm sample?
Because of his continuous showboating in the colony and breach of regulations, Navalny’s prison conditions grew harsher, particularly as regards visit restrictions. He never saw or spoke to Navalnaya for 2 years before his death.
So does this mean that representatives of the UK government “and its partners” must have been allowed to see him somehow and take tissue samples from him, from which samples they were able to determine that he had been killed by the poison extracted from a Central American frog?
 
How else could they say that they had proof positive that the Evil Orcs had poisoned the thief and bullshitter?

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Feb 15 2026 15:38 utc | 129

April 2021: She saw him at the IK-2 penal colony in Pokrov.August 2021: She spent three days with him at the same facility.
Does anyone think he got his leg over with her during the second visit and she fucked off with a sperm sample?
Because of his continuous showboating in the colony and breach of regulations, Navalny’s prison conditions grew harsher, particularly as regards visit restrictions. He never saw or spoke to Navalnaya for 2 years before his death.
So does this mean that representatives of the UK government “and its partners” must have been allowed to see him somehow and take tissue samples from him, from which samples they were able to determine that he had been killed by the poison extracted from a Central American frog?
How else could they say that they had proof positive that the Evil Orcs had poisoned the thief and bullshitter?

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Feb 15 2026 15:43 utc | 131

No detailed public protocol exists on exactly how the samples were collected, preserved, transported, or verified to prevent contamination/tampering.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 15 2026 15:52 utc | 133

The lab science is solid and defensible (multi-country, advanced tox methods, exotic toxin not easily faked), but the story’s weakest point is how the samples got from the body to those labs. Body samples in this context simply means small amounts of biological material—such as blood, tissue, hair, or other fluids—taken from Alexei Navalny’s remains for forensic toxicology testing.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 15 2026 16:05 utc | 135

First off any legit journalist would have to ask where did they get the samples from the body? Why two years later? I can’t even entertain the notion with that missing from the story. I would still be skeptical if they did obtain but not even going to consider without that included 

Posted by: WG | Feb 15 2026 16:23 utc | 137

Lev Davidovich | Feb 15 2026 14:01 utc | 132
 
Welll it obviously must have been a frog coz Navalny croaked, didn’t he.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 15 2026 17:39 utc | 139

Moscow Exile | Feb 15 2026 15:35 utc | 139
*** The UK is today exposing the brutal and barbaric circumstances surrounding the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison.***
 
Cooper won’t expose the brutal and barbaric extermination of Palestinians by the Israelis, because Israel and its agents are known to have paid her a considerable amount of money.
Cooper is an outstandingly evil shit who in the Blair administration not only participated in lies to commence foreign wars, but, with a gang of others some of whom are still there with her under Starmer,  endeavoured to make life misery for the disabled.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 15 2026 17:53 utc | 141

I wonder if Gonzalo Lira was murdered with the same poison?

Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 15 2026 19:15 utc | 143

Came across this post. Someone did their homework about frog poison. My bolds

Anatomy of Truth 
 

 
 

 

I can’t claim to know toxicology well but this is so absurd that I had to go check if I was remembering the basics correctly. Turns out it isn’t just absurd, it’s insanely sloppy and actually quite hilarious. Of all the things to pick, why pick something so implausible.

First, I checked what his circle claimed to be his symptomatology in 2024. The most prominent reported symptom in his final hours was sharp, severe abdominal pain plus vomiting and collapse. Epibatidine’s defining property is extreme analgesia, 100–200× more potent than morphine. It binds to neuronal nicotinic receptors (α4β2 subtype) to produce profound pain suppression and full-body numbness. Victims would become insensitive to pain, not hypersensitive. No literature in either animal or analog studies describes acute gastrointestinal agony as a hallmark. If anything, early nicotinic stimulation might cause mild nausea salivation, but the dominant effect is pain erasure. A dying victim screaming from stomach pain is the opposite of what epibatidine does.

This is boring but important, natural occurrence is actively disputed. Original 1970s samples yielded <1 mg from thousands of frogs; later collections from the same species found zero epibatidine. Apparently, frogs don’t synthesize it, they sequester it from wild diet in specific microhabitats. Captive or non-specific populations produce none. Harvesting a lethal dose (LD₅₀ ~2–14 μg/kg) naturally would require processing thousands of protected wild frogs from remote Ecuador. How would this be possible without anyone noticing? Framing it as frog poison is pure theatre.

Did they smuggle old post-mortem samples two years after death / cremation or was it earlier? Epibatidine is a small, non-persistent molecule. In vitro studies suggest it’s minimally metabolized, but no data exists on long-term stability in embalmed/cremated remains or degraded tissue. There is no precedent I could find for detecting epibatidine in any human poisoning, ever. Labs would have to extrapolate from rodent models and synthetic standards, how can they have “conclusive” proof?
 
 
Epibatidine has never been documented as a homicide agent. Why would Russia who supposedly has sophisticated domestic agents switch to an obscure, hyper-potent nicotinic agonist especially on a “high profile” prisoner? It’s a prison colony, I’m sure that there are far less complex options to cause a prisoner’s untimely demise. Also the poison frog experts (I didn’t know it was a thing lol) call it “very surprising” as a weapon choice, no military or intelligence program has ever pursued it. Also, how did they pull off the logistics for administering this in a remote arctic colony? Did the FSB agents fly in with ready-made injections when drug trials failed to make any headway with synthetics for years?

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 15 2026 19:40 utc | 145

For Yulia Navalnaya, his widow, this revelation is the end of a long, cold wait for the truth. It was two years ago at the Munich Security Conference, that annual jamboree of securocrats and diplomats, that the world was told of her husband’s death. She was there, standing up in her fresh grief to plead: “I am asking everyone who is here to unite and help punish the Russian regime.”
 
Yesterday, at that same conference, came the final, formal pronouncement of guilt. Britain, backed by European allies, accused Putin and named the toxin. Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, laid out the facts: “Only the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin to target Navalny during his imprisonment.” There was, the government concluded, “no innocent explanation”.
 
The Sunday Times 

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 15 2026 20:29 utc | 147

According to the official conspiracy theory after he was flown to Germany it was WMD in his underwear.
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Die-Unterhose-wird-Nawalny-zum-Verhaengnis-article22751828.html

But how can he survive WMD? And why was he allowed to fly to Germany and why didn`t he stay there? The official conspiracy theory does not make any sense.

Posted by: p3t3r | Feb 15 2026 23:28 utc | 149

I don’t understand any of this. It makes no sense. Why didn’t they just strangle him in his cell and then claim that he killed himself? 
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 16 2026 14:30 utc | 162

Because it is invented from whole cloth.
I doubt that Russia intentionally or unintentionally killed him.
either his wife brought the poison or the story is fully fake.
See the similarities to Skripall poisoning or the suicide of one David Kelly …

convoluted stories with zero truth.

Posted by: MAKK | Feb 16 2026 16:47 utc | 151

Glen Diesen: John Helmer: Attempts to Russiagate the Epstein Files
 
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1/videos
 
” Helmer discusses the significance of the Epstein Files, the attempts to Russiagate the scandal, and the political divisions that have grown in Moscow.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 18 2026 13:37 utc | 153