The German government claimed earlier in the day that tests performed on Russian opposition figure and blogger Alexei Navalny showed that he had been exposed to a nerve agent from the Novichok group.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Wednesday that Berlin's appeal to the EU, NATO and the OPCW on the Navalny case is needed to justify pre-arranged “response measures.”
If Berlin's goal is a genuine investigation, like it is for Russia, the case should be reviewed in the legal framework as both “the political will and legal tools” are there to give it a go, according to the spokeswoman.
The behaviour of the German Justice Ministry and doctors makes it seem as if they were prohibited from communicating with the Russian colleagues around the Navalny case, the Russian Foreign Ministry added.
The ministry pointed out that doctors from the Russian city of Omsk, where Navalny was initially hospitalised after feeling unwell on a domestic Russian flight on 20 August, offered assistance in the further diagnostics in a letter sent to the German counterparts from the Berlin-based Charite hospital, where the politician was transported two days later.
Kremlin on Navalny Case
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a whole range of tests was conducted for Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in Russia before he was taken to Berlin, no toxic substances were detected.
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