Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has promised to respond to possible new Western sanctions in connection with the Alexei Navalny case. TASS reports.
“Nobody canceled the principle of reciprocity in international affairs. Let's see what new sanctions will be, of course, we will react. This cannot be left without reaction, ”the minister said.
Earlier, Lavrov said that the fact that all those who accompanied Alexei Navalny on his trip before his emergency hospitalization in Omsk are starting to move to Germany, is suggestive.
On September 11, Interior Ministry investigators began to search for Alexei Navalny's companion, who escaped from Russia, Marina Pevchikh, who permanently resides in the UK. According to the investigation, on August 20, Pevchikh, who was with Navalny during his stay in the Tomsk region, avoided giving explanations to the Russian law enforcement agencies, and on August 22 flew to Germany, in connection with which the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs was unable to interview her. Its location is currently being established.
Alexei Navalny became ill on the morning of August 20 during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, the plane urgently landed in Omsk. On August 22, the oppositionist was taken to a Berlin clinic. The German authorities announced the poisoning of a Russian citizen with the poison of the Novichok group. Russian doctors claim that the tests did not show the presence of any poisons in Navalny's body. The head physician of the Omsk ambulance hospital No. 1, Alexander Murakhovsky, claimed that the patient had a carbohydrate balance disorder.
