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Toxin used to poison Alexei Navalny was synthesized at the same institute that created the Novichok nerve agent

In 2013, employees of the Moscow-based State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, known by its Russian acronym GosNIIOKhT, published a scientific paper describing a method for producing epibatidine

Navalny was poisoned with exotic frog toxin, five Western nations confirm

Five European countries have confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine — a high-potency neurotoxin derived from South American poison dart frogs

Claims of Navalny's poisoning are Western propaganda hoax

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has dismissed claims that blogger Alexey Navalny was poisoned with frog-derived poison

UK accuses Moscow of “blatant breach” of Chemical Weapons Convention in Alexei Navalny’s death by poisoning

The UK has formally notified the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) about the Russian state’s use of a banned toxin against opposition leader Alexei Navalny, confirming information previously published by The Insider that a rare poison, epibatidine, was found in samples taken from the political prisoner’s body