Axios: “An undercover team working for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) followed opposition leader Alexei Navalny on more than 30 trips to and from Moscow since 2017 before he was poisoned in August, according to a bombshell investigation led by Bellingcat. The Kremlin has denied having any role in the poisoning of Navalny, who is one of the most prominent domestic critics of President Vladimir Putin. But an analysis of ‘voluminous telecom and travel data’ by Bellingcat suggests the poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok ‘was mandated at the highest echelons of the Kremlin.’ Bellingcat, an open-source journalism website that also identified the Russian officers behind the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in the U.K., found the attack was the culmination of years of stalking that began at least a month after Navalny’s 2017 announcement that he would stand against Putin in presidential elections the next year.”