DISINFO: Russia is very decent with Alexei Navalny, but he only blames Putin for everything
SUMMARY
The problem is that the Kremlin seems to be too much cautious with Navalny because of all the illegal demonstrations he has organised, all the failed attempts to overthrow the country’s constitutional order. Navalny has never had a real and strong judicial condemnation for his political activities because Russia considers that he does not present a real political danger and it is not worth making a fully assembled pseudo-Mandela 2.0. hairpin by the West.
But, when Russia kindly let Navalny go to Germany when normally he had to legally stay in Russia since still subject to a reprieve, Russia took a humanitarian and human decision. The behaviour of Navalny in return was ungrateful. He directly accused Russia and he has a pathological fixation against President Putin. Then the way in which France and Germany have used this Navalny affair to pretend Russia is some kind of terrorist country using chemical weapons in an unjustified manner. It is in a way perhaps too much which also explains the reception committee of the police forces awaiting Navalny in Russia.
RESPONSE
A recurrent narrative on the Navalny poisoning.
There are serious indications about the involvement of Russian State authorities. So far no investigation has been opened despite the transmission of German police files to Russia, the publication of the joint investigation from Bellingcat and The Insider, in cooperation with Der Spiegel and CNN, and the published conversation with Konstantin Kudryavtsev, one of the FSB officers who travelled to Omsk in the aftermath of the Navalny poisoning.
The fact that Alexei Navalny was allowed to be treated in Germany should also be analysed in the context of intense international pressure and not only from a human perspective. Western leaders of different countries like Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Sauli Niinistö discussed the issue with Vladimir Putin on the 22 August 2020.
The fact of Navalny's poisoning with a Novichok-type agent had been solidly established and was later independently corroborated by labs in France and Sweden, and finally confirmed by the OPCW.
Clinical details of the case were published in the Medical Journal The Lancet.
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