The head of FBK International, Maria Pevchikh, published on the social network
According to Pevchikh, this document has been at the disposal of the FBK team for a year and a half, but this week it will be published by a number of media outlets under the guise of a “sensational publication” (they did not specify which). “To be honest, it was difficult for me to even admit the idea that a journalist would decide to publish it. Its content does not meet any ethical standards, even the minimum,” writes the head of FBK.
Pevchikh points out that such a publication has no public importance, because the forensic examination conducted by Russian officials is “sterile and clean” and does not add “anything significant” to the information about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
“To collect clicks on photographs and a detailed description of what each internal organ of the murdered politician looks like is beyond the bounds of conceivable ethics and morality. But at the same time, I understand that millions of people who supported Navalny, sympathized with him and suffered huge loss with his death, want to know as much detail as possible about what happened. Therefore, with the consent of Alexei’s family, we publish below the contents of the document, a full list of studies conducted, as well as their conclusions,” said Maria Pevchikh. “Forensic chemical examination.”
According to FBK, the entire document with graphic attachments consists of 289 pages. Pevchikh published its front pages, a list of studies conducted, general conclusions and expert opinion.
Pevchikh noted that the list of studies conducted during the Ministry of Health’s forensic examination was “unusually and uncharacteristically broad” for what the Kremlin called “deaths from natural causes.”
“They were looking, among other things, for toxic substances. For example, toxins from poisonous plants and mushrooms. Atropine (an antidote for poisoning with cholinemimetic substances and anticholinesterases) was found in Navalny’s body. In addition to atropine, attention is drawn to diethyltoluamide (used as a repellent) found in swabs, the source of which has not been explained,” the FBK head wrote.
The document states that Navalny’s cause of death was “a combined disease: hypertension with damage to blood vessels and organs, diffuse myocardial stiffness, complicated by the development of cerebral edema, ventricular fibrillation, and pulmonary edema.”
Maria Pevchikh emphasized, “This conclusion does not correspond to reality and the results of research conducted by foreign laboratories, which concluded that Navalny died of poisoning. The forensic medical examination showed signs of clearly ‘adapting’ the study to the desired result – the conclusion that Navalny died due to his death.”
Resuscitation doctor Alexander Poluban, who treated Alexei Navalny after Novichok poisoning, male The agency stated that according to forensic medical examination data, “it is impossible to unequivocally confirm poisoning, but it is possible to unequivocally refute the official diagnosis.”
Updated. how He writes Insider’s transcript, the full transcript of the forensic examination of Alexei Navalny’s autopsy, was published on the Black Mirror telegram channel.
Alexei Navalny died on February 16, 2024 in a cell in Correctional Colony No. 3 of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Oblast. The Investigative Committee refused to open a criminal case into the politician’s death, citing the results of the official forensic examination of the Russian Ministry of Health.
In February 2026, the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands issued a joint statement saying that Alexei Navalny had been poisoned in a Russian colony with epibatidine, a tree frog poison. This conclusion was made independently by researchers who studied samples of Navalny’s biomaterials.