Russia has formally rejected Western accusations that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned to death, sending a note to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons denying any wrongdoing. Moscow’s representative told TASS the note, circulated among OPCW member states, dismisses the allegations as “absurd insinuations” and argues that epibatidine – the toxin Western governments say killed Navalny – falls outside the Chemical Weapons Convention and therefore cannot be considered