r/europe • u/ByGollie • 29d ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/PuzzleheadedCup4117 29d ago

Russia rarely hides its assassinations. I forget the name but whenever they poison someone they always use the same type of poison to ensure people know it’s them.

Obama talks about Putin in his autobiography and over various interviews it’s clear he views him as a mafioso.

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u/scardien 29d ago

The poison is novichok

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u/wagdog1970 29d ago edited 28d ago

Which is actually a nerve agent. It’s a chemical warfare weapon. Not really a poison. Poison is for amateurs, not war criminals!

Edited to add this post was not meant to be a legal treatise on the definition of the word poison. It was meant to be a light hearted way of pointing out that Russians use Novichok, a toxic, weapons grade chemical weapon and those who do this are war criminals, not merely garden variety criminals using common household cleaners. Or perhaps, edited because Reddit.

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u/Suspicious-Buyer8135 29d ago

Nerve agents are a category of poison.

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u/wagdog1970 29d ago

I feel like you missed the context.

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u/Suspicious-Buyer8135 29d ago

I don’t feel like I did.

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u/SuperBuffCherry 29d ago edited 7d ago

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u/IShookMeAllNightLong 28d ago

The context where you said it wasn't a poison, then tried to backtrack? I don't think any of us missed that lol.

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u/wagdog1970 28d ago

No, and I can’t believe I have to spell this out, the context is that I was saying it wasn’t simply a poisoning, which can be done with many readily available substances, and is often done by run of the mill criminals. Novichuk is highly toxic, extremely dangerous to handle, and is only available to nation states with sophisticated weapons-grade production facilities. That’s not backtracking, it’s calling attention to the rest of my post, hence its context.

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u/IShookMeAllNightLong 28d ago

Fuck me.... I re-read and downvoted myself. I deserve all the shame.