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SEDAN “Hello, I’m Navalny,” the Russian dissident wrote yesterday under a photo posted on his Instagram account, which in a few hours received more than a million likes. Sitting on a hospital bed, with his wife and two children by his side, is his first image since he entered the Berlin Charité to be treated after being poisoned at a Siberian airport with a nerve agent from the Novichok family. .
“I missed you. I can’t do it all by myself yet, but yesterday I managedbreathe without help all day, ”added Putin’s first opponent, a likely victim of the Russian secret services. In a separate tweet, his spokesperson, Kira Yarmysch, said that once Navalny is cured he wants to return to Russia, to continue his battle against corruption and in support of opposition candidates.
But no one makes predictions about the time of return. Doctors Monday Della Charitè removed her respirators and Navalny was also able to get out of bed for brief periods. But they still do not rule out that the poison could leave permanent consequences in the body of the dissident. Proven by the analysis of the toxicological laboratory of the Bundeswehr, the German army, the use of novichok has also been confirmed by independent tests carried out in France and Sweden. Developed in the 1970s by the Red Army, the poison was used in 2018 in Salisbury, England, against ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, who survived. The British government openly accuses the Moscow services of the attack.
Now a real battle is being fought over the Navalny case diplomatic between Russia and Western countries, which ask for explanations and threaten new sanctions, in addition to those already in force since 2014 after the annexation of Crimea. Yesterday, in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, who expressed “strong concern about the criminal act”, Vladimir Putin called the accusations against Russia “improper and unfounded” and renewed the request to the German authorities to show the analyzes. . and the blood samples used.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov even raised A shadow on Germany’s behavior, saying it doesn’t understand their refusal to cooperate. The director of Russian external services, Sergei Naryshkin, is more explicit, according to who, given that Alexei Navalny had no traces of poison on his body when he left Russia (according to the Omsk doctors) “there are many questions to which the party German has to answer ».
Meanwhile, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov canceled As a sign of controversy, a long-planned visit to Berlin and in a phone call with his German colleague Maas warned him not to try to politicize the issue. According to Lavrov, the Germans’ refusal to provide biological samples “demonstrates the unwillingness to shed light through an objective investigation.” However, a spokesman for the Chancellery of the Federal Republic said that “Navalny was interned for 48 hours in a Russian hospital after feeling ill.”
September 16, 2020 (change September 16, 2020 | 01:47)
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