Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that the behavior of the West on the situation with Alexei Navalny goes beyond all limits of decency. He spoke about this in an interview published on the agency's website.
Lavrov noted that, in fact, Moscow is forced to believe experts from Western countries, but at the same time, Germany has not yet responded to the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office for legal assistance. The minister stressed that the request “was not clear where for more than a week”, and as a result, Russia was asked to start a criminal investigation.
“Against this background, Western partners look at us with arrogance: we have no right to doubt their correctness and professionalism (…) Arrogance and a sense of our own infallibility have already been observed in Europe and led to very sad consequences,” the minister said.
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.
