TOMSK, Russia—Shortly following Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny collapsed previous thirty day period on a airplane in excess of Siberia with signals of poisoning, his supporters rushed to the lodge space in which he experienced been being to glimpse for clues.

Instead of calling the police, they said they bagged everything they could obtain there in the hopes of solving the secret of what struck down the forty four-12 months-aged activist.

Days…