Sleeping perfume: Russian oppositionist told how special services tried to poison it (video)

Natalia Arno, the founder of the Free Russia Foundation, left the Russian Federation after many years of tracking and threats. But she was tried to poison in Prague and Vilnius, spraying an unknown toxin in the room. Natalia Arno, the founder of the Free Russia Foundation, said in a new documentary "Foreign Agents" about how it was tried to poison Russian special services twice. Even after it left the Russian Federation after numerous threats to her address.

Her associate of Vladimir Kara-Murza was recently sentenced to 25 years in the Russian Federation. A woman is currently living in the US. About it writes The Sun. In May, 47-year-old Natalia Arno traveled in Europe when she was poisoned by an unknown nerve toxin, which was paralyzed from pain. "The Kremlin's regime kills. Transnational operations similar to this are a key tool for them," Natalia said.

On May 2, Natalia returned to her hotel room in Prague at 7:30 pm after a private event and found that the door was open, and immediately thought that she may have been waiting for an FSB officer. She found all the things in the same order, but noticed that she smells like a strange perfume in the room. At the rack of registration, she was told that the maid probably left the door open, and said they would deal with this incident.

Natalia returned to her room and went to bed, but in a few hours she woke up from painful pain in her mouth. Assuming that she had her tooth problems, she accepted painkillers. But in a few hours the pain increased and began to spread throughout the body: her eyes were clouded and her arms and legs were numb. Natalia waited for a visit to the doctor and flew to the United States, where she was urgently taken to hospital.

"My team members advised me to take heavy metals and other possible poisons," Natalia says. Doctors diagnosed Natalia neuropathy-a type of nerve damage, which, according to them, is not associated with any natural cause and is most likely caused by poisoning. After the investigation of the FBI, the use of neuro-paralytic agents developed in the Soviet Union, but its doctors and neurologist confirmed that it was poisoned by "nerve-paralytic toxins".

Natalia herself says that she was surprised only by the way she was tried to poison, but not the fact that the Kremlin chose her target. She noted that for her it is a "sign of honor" and she would never allow the Kremlin to make her silent. "If the Kremlin is aiming at us, it means that we are doing everything right. We are the fiercest enemies of the Kremlin regime. But we began to think less about threats.

We thought that if we escape from Russia, we would be in greater security," he said She, noting that the Kremlin agents can reach them abroad. Her case is still investigated by US law enforcement agencies. And this was not the first time of attack on Natalia. Back in July 2021, she was in Vilnius, Lithuania, when she noticed in her room a similar smell of perfume, and later it began with heat and rash.

Natalia Arno says that for many years she has been persecuted by Russian security services, which eventually forced her to leave the country with her son. "I traveled all over Russia . . . We discussed how to make Russia better. Russia didn't like it. I knew that all my emails were read The gym and I was constantly monitored.

They told me what the color of the underwear I wear, because they had bugs in my bathroom, "Natalia says she did not worry about her personal security, but she was worried about her son . So when security officers appeared on the threshold and said that she had 48 hours to leave the Russian Federation, otherwise she would be in prison, Natalia Arno decided to leave the decision. "I was threatened and given a choice: to sit in prison for 20 years or I had 48 hours to gather things and leave.

So I chose freedom. I am glad that I still take part in this struggle 10 years later," - he recalls The oppositionist. This incident happened in 2012, and Natalia left Russia to start a new life in the United States. The Free Russia Foundation, the founder of which it is, supports Russian activists, journalists and democratic organizations. Currently, the Fund is also working to liberate Ukrainian prisoners of war and protects the interests of Russians, Belarusians and Kazakhs who live in exile.

The Vice President of the Foundation, Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza also tried to poison, probably "newcomers" during a trip to the Russian Federation. In April 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in imprisonment after arresting against war in Ukraine on MSNBC. Critics of the Kremlin have long become a target outside Russia.

Thus, the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by the newcomer nerve substance in Salisbury in the United Kingdom in March 2018. According to British law enforcement officers, suspected of violin poisoning Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov are employees of Russian intelligence. They later interviewed that they came to look at the Salsbury Cathedral, explaining why they were in the UK.

And the poisoning and death of the Russian dissident and writer Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 were in the headlines of newspapers around the world. On August 20, 2020, Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny tried to poison in the Russian Federation. He fainted on the Tomsk-Moscow aircraft. Soon the opposition fell into a coma. A few days later, despite the resistance of local officials and doctors, the policy was transported to the German clinic "Sharyite".