Navalny Asks Russian Spy Agency To Investigate Media Claims He's Western Agent
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has asked the country's lead domestic spy agency to launch an investigation after state television accused him of serving as a secret operative for the West.
Navalny said on April 13 that he was formally asking the Federal Security Service (FSB) to confiscate and examine the validity of documents shown on air by Rossia-1 television that the network calls evidence that he is a paid agent of U.S. and British intelligence.
Navalny, his supporters, and opposition-minded media outlets have ridiculed the purported evidencepreviewed by state media boss and television host Dmitry Kiselyov on April 9 and set to be detailed in a full "expose" slated to be broadcast by Rossia-1 on the evening of April 13.
They note that the documents that Rossia-1 claims were leaked from Britain's MI6 spy agency and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are riddled with clumsy English syntax and grammatical mistakes, and that voices heard on Navalny's purportedly tapped phone sound nothing like the Kremlin foe.
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