The world community is again trying to play a show to promote someone's economic interests and discredit Russia, said the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky, commenting on the development of the situation around the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who is being treated in Germany.
Earlier, a number of German politicians called for a review of Germany's support for the Nord stream 2 project in connection with new circumstances in the case of the Russian opposition leader.
"In fact, the world community is again trying to play a show in order to discredit the Russian Federation and promote someone's economic interests. Question: does Berlin really need this? Or did someone urgently need to shift the focus from the US-German standoff over the Mord stream 2 and the prospects for exchanging "sanctions pleasantries"? The answers here should not be sought in Russia," Slutsky wrote in his Telegram channel.
The German Cabinet on Wednesday said that experts from the Bundeswehr laboratory found that Navalny, who is being treated in Berlin, was "poisoned" by the substance of the Novichok group of toxic fighting substances. Press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told RIA Novosti that Berlin did not inform Moscow of its conclusions about the "poisoning" of Navalny by Novichok, Russia does not have such data. The Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the statement of the German Cabinet, noted that the Russian side is waiting for a response from Germany to the request of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation on the situation around Navalny. Earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the Nord stream 2 gas pipeline should be completed, this issue is not appropriate to link with the Navalny case.
Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev visited the German Foreign Ministry on Wednesday in connection with new circumstances in the Navalny case. As a result, the Russian diplomatic mission noted that Nechaev was "informed of the contents of the statement of the Federal government of Germany", while "no substantive invoice was transmitted to the Ambassador". Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova later confirmed that "the Russian side has not received any material on this issue - neither on the previously sent questions formulated by the Prosecutor General's office, nor on the previously sent letters of Russian doctors, nor on the statements made by the German side" on Wednesday.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting in Minsk on Thursday that he had intercepted a conversation between Warsaw and Berlin that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statements about Navalny's poisoning were falsifications. He promised to hand over the recording to the Russian secret services.
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Based on materials from RIA Novosti