Chuck Grassley
US Senator Chuck Grassley hoped that the situation with Alexei Navalny could lead to a new era of cooperation between the United States and the European Union. The text of his speech was published on the website of the US Senate.
He said that the situation with Navalny is disgusting, but this is not the first time such an “attempt” has occurred: for example, he pointed to the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov in 2015. According to the senator, the United States and Europe will have to work together to confront such situations.
“I hope this will mark the beginning of a new era of cooperation with our European allies in countering Russian influence,” Grassley said. He added that the United States' allies in Europe have long taken a tough stance towards Russia and, in particular, towards the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The politician reproached the German authorities for reconsidering their views on construction only after what happened to Navalny.
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.
