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| - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in intensive care Thursday with suspected poisoning, has suffered physical attacks in the past, as have other Kremlin critics. Here is a recap of some previous cases, proven or suspected, over the past 15 years. In July 2019 Navalny suffers rashes and his face becomes swollen while he is in prison during a crackdown on anti-Kremlin protesters and after he had called for an unauthorised rally. In 2017 he endures chemical burns to an eye when attackers throw green dye used as a disinfectant at his face outside his office. In March 2018 former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his adult daughter are found unconscious on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury and hospitalised in critical condition. Police say they have been poisoned with the highly toxic nerve agent Novichok. London accuses Moscow of wanting to kill the ex-agent for his work with European intelligence agencies. The Kremlin denies the charges. The Skripals survive but the case becomes one of the biggest irritants in Britain's relations with Russia. In June, British counterterrorism police appeal for more information about the attack, which it blames on two Russian security service officers who allegedly entered Britain using false passports. Russia continues to deny the claims. Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko dies in agony in November 2006 three weeks after drinking tea laced with highly radioactive polonium-210 at a London hotel. A British inquiry in January 2016 accuses Moscow of the poisoning, which it denies. Pyotr Verzilov, an anti-Kremlin activist and associate of the punk group Pussy Riot, is admitted to hospital in Moscow on September 14, 2018, suffering from apparent poisoning from medical drugs. He is quickly flown to Germany where doctors say poisoning was "highly plausible". Verzilov's estranged wife, Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, says the suspected poisoning was "probably an assassination attempt, if not it was an intimidation." After he is discharged from hospital on September 26, Verzilov says he is "convinced" he was poisoned by Russia's secret service. In September 2004 Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko, campaigning against a Russian-backed candidate for the presidency, falls seriously ill. Tests in an Austrian clinic determine that he had ingested a massive amount of dioxin. He survives and goes on to win the election, but his face is left bloated and pockmarked. His supporters accuse the Russian secret service of involvement. rap-eab/gd
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