A new poll reveals that only 33% of Russians believe opposition figure Alexey Navalny was intentionally poisoned last month.
The poll, conducted by Levada Center, a Moscow-based independent research organization, follows Navalny’s first public interview where he directly pointed the finger at the Russian president for his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok.
According to the survey, even among those who said the poisoning was deliberate, just one in three believe President Vladimir Putin, the secret services or other state authorities are behind the plot.
"I assert that Putin was behind the crime, and I have no other explanation for what happened," Navalny said on October 1, during an interview in Berlin with the German daily Der Spiegel.
