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Navalny says poisoning was because Russian government saw him as threat

06:49 am on 7 October 2020

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In his first video interview since leaving hospital, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he was poisoned by Russia's intelligence service because they saw him as a threat ahead of next year's parliamentary elections.

Navalny was posioned with a Novichok agent in August and spent more than three weeks in a coma in a Berlin hospital.

Berlin correspondent Thomas Sparrow speaks to Susie Ferguson.