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– Where are the facts? Where are the formulas? Where is the information? Our ambassador received no reply. No facts, no formulas, no information. Without equipment. Nothing! Exclaims the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zacharova, in an official statement on the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
– We are ready to fully cooperate and exchange information with Germany. But we get no response from them, says Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
We want to cooperate. We want facts. We are open.
In exactly the same way, the Kremlin answered all questions after Sergei and Julia Skripal were poisoned with the novitiate at Salisbury 2018.
Why do you speak of “facts”? And “information exchange” when the Russian authorities have previously done the opposite? In Navalny’s case, even his wife was not allowed to read his medical records at the Omsk hospital. He was not allowed to see the German doctors when they arrived at the hospital. The Russian authorities delayed Navalny’s departure to Berlin, where he has now received qualified care. Dmitry Peskov refused to say Navalny’s name, calling him “the patient.”
Nothing in the Kremlin’s handling of the Navalny case has involved information sharing. An attempt has been made to retain it. The fact that he is now throwing criticism in the face of the Western world means, in fact, that he knows exactly how heavy this argument is.
If you want facts, there are a few things to keep in mind. The case is, for example, that the novitiate is a chemical weapon, nothing that any corrupt businessman from Navalny can reveal. It is a war poison that was developed by Soviet chemists in the 1970s, and can no longer be manufactured except for scientific purposes.
Former Soviet chemist Vil Mirzajanov tells the independent Dozhd that the poison can be made legally in Russia, for scientific purposes.
As for the poisoning of journalist Yuri Shchekochichin, opposition activists Vladimir Kara-Murza and Pyotr Verziolv, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei and Yulia Skripal and more recently Alexei Navalny, the problem for the Kremlin is that they are united due to two factors: When the poisoning occurred abroad. it has been shown that they were carried out by agents of the Russian FSB, as in the case of Litvinenko and Skripals. As the crime took place in Russia, the police never found the culprit.
The Kremlin is speaking frankness, They want to get to the bottom of the facts, about the exchange of information, but in practice you never find the guilty of political assassinations. Over time, it all turns into a mess of competing hypotheses, smoke screens, and conspiracy theories.
Alexei Navalny seems ready to survive, according to experts at the Charité Hospital. His condition is constantly improving, but it is too early to tell if he will be permanently injured.
Photo: Mladen Antonov
In the case of the Navalny case, however, the consequences could be worse than those in power had anticipated.
When Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in the street just steps from the Kremlin in 2015, Russian police quickly arrested the person holding the weapon, Zaur Dadaev. He belonged to the circle of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, confessed to murdering Nemtsov and was immediately sentenced to twenty years in prison. According to Dadaev, he fired Nemtsov in response to his insult to Islam. Formally, the problem was resolved.
In Navalny’s case, on the other hand, it is impossible to blame uncontrollable gunmen for wounded religious sentiments. The common bandits do not engage in poisoning.
If it is true that the FSB Navalny poisoned, why was he finally allowed to fly to Berlin? The same question can be asked about the Salisbury poison scandal. If it is true that the FSB is behind the assassination attempt on Skripals, why did they allow themselves to be captured by the surveillance cameras?
Some operations fail. Others succeed. While Navalny was in Russia, the only alleged facts that were leaked were a wide spread of theories about hangovers or low blood sugar. The fact that Navalny was eventually removed from the country was the result of a determined campaign by both Navalny’s relatives and the international community.
However, the murder of Nemtsov, whoever carried it out, was a success. The object was killed and there were no consequences for the Kremlin.
But it can be now.
German doctors tracked down the poison, which is likely to create very serious problems for the Putin regime. New sanctions are expected. The Russian ruble has already fallen.
Navalny appears to be surviving, according to experts at Charité Hospital. They write in a press release that the patient’s condition is constantly improving, but that it remains serious and that recovery will take a long time. It is still too early to tell if you will be permanently injured.
The argument that is constantly being added The advance in Russia is that the importance of Navalny is exaggerated in the West. But if it is true that Navalny is so insignificant to the Kremlin, why should he never stand for election? Why are the police constantly investigating your office? Why was your brother imprisoned in a blatantly false trial? Why was Navalny himself convicted of embezzlement in an equally sham trial, which has been rejected by the Council of Europe Court of Human Rights?
In the near future, we can expect more and more information to emerge as the examinations of German doctors continue. And that the Kremlin’s call for “facts and formulas” will continue.
