Alexander Shulgin
Russia's Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alexander Shulgin called a possible visit of experts to the country to investigate the incident with the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent) Alexei Navalny irrelevant. His words are reported by TASS.
As Shulgin said, Russia turned to the OPCW with a clearly formulated request, but in response the organization set out “completely unacceptable conditions for interaction.” “The Russian side did not withdraw the proposal to travel to Russia for OPCW experts, but only stated that, given the non-constructive approach of the technical secretariat, it has lost its relevance,” he explained.
On December 11 last year, the head of the OPCW, Fernando Arias, said that the organization wants to send a technical mission to Moscow to investigate the incident with Navalny. Then Moscow replied that the OPCW was showing a non-partner attitude, and considered the visit of representatives of the organization on the conditions set forth by The Hague impossible.
Navalny was detained on January 17 at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport upon his return from Germany, where he was undergoing treatment. The oppositionist fell into a coma on August 20 last year, he felt bad during the flight from Tomsk to Moscow. On August 22, he was taken to a German clinic, the doctors of which announced the poisoning of a Russian with a substance from the Novichok group. Russian doctors found no traces of the poison.
On February 2, Moscow's Simonovsky Court overturned Navalny's suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case for violating the terms of the probation period. He was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. In the colony, according to the decision of the Moscow City Court of February 20, he will stay for 2.5 years. He is currently in jail-3 in Kolchugino in the Vladimir region.
