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It is now clear that the leader of the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the novitiate.
– It is completely unlikely that such an attack on such a well-known figure could have been carried out without the approval of Russia’s highest absolute authorities, perhaps even President Vladimir Putin himself.
Germany demands an investigation, how will the Russian government react?
– He will say “We don’t know anything, the information is uncertain, the German authorities will not give us the details we need to cooperate and that makes us think that this is not true.”
Bert Sundström believes that Russia will launch the same apparatus as after Skripal: disinformation, denial and attempts to mislead so that at least people in Russia believe that it was not something that Russia was behind.
“A sign for all of the opposition”
Martin Kragh, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Institute for Foreign Policy (UI) agrees.
– This type of preparation is under strict control of the security service, says Martin Kragh to TT.
According to him, the people behind the poisoning want to send a signal to everyone in the Russian opposition.
– Indirectly also a signal for all those who demonstrate and protest against the oppression in Belarus. If you look at it in a broader context, the leaders of the Kremlin and the Russian security service are deeply concerned that events in Belarus are going in the wrong direction, from their perspective, Martin Kragh told TT.
There may be other explanations, but we will never know, he says.
– The problem is, of course, that we will never get answers to our questions while the current leaders remain.
