From Gilbert Doctorow's "MI6 strikes again: Navalny’s aide Volkov beaten up in Lithuania"

 

On the other side of the ledger, Russian television last night carried the latest edition of Bessogon, a program of news and documentary videos scripted and presented by the well known Russian cinema director Nikita Mikhalkov [...]

With his director’s fine eye for detail, Mikhalkov put up on the screen videos of Navalny’s widow Yulia during and immediately following her delivery of a speech at the Munich Security Conference denouncing Putin as personally behind the murder of her husband and the wrecking of Russian society.  Facial expression tells it all:  as the subtitle of last night’s show put it “The Merry Widow.”  Only the stubbornly blind will not see in the gleeful eyes and smirky smiles of Yulya Navalnaya the clear statement that she is overjoyed finally to be on stage herself, not on the sidelines watching her heroic husband.

One of the more piquant issues that Mikhalkov raised in this show is what exactly was the cause of Navalny’s death.  He does not question the coroner’s report that it was due to a detached blood clot (thrombosis). He reminds us that this very finding was supported to reporters by the head of Ukrainian intelligence Budanov, who had no interest in exculpating the Kremlin for Navalny’s death.  And why the loosened blood clot? For this, Mikhalkov turns to official British findings on mortality from blood clots of those who received the anti-Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna during the height of the pandemic. The statistics speak clearly of a vastly increased risk of death for those who were vaccinated.  And, per Mikhalkov, Navalny was vaccinated with the Pfizer shots not once, not twice but as many as five times during his stay of several months in Germany when he was recuperating from a (phony) Novichok poisoning. Mikhalkov concludes that Navalny was killed by Pfizer.