Moscow expects European partners to the incident with politician Alexei Navalny (Founder of FBK, included with the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent, and recognized as an extremist organization) in the coming days. This was stated by deputy director of the Department of Nonproliferation and Control of Arms of the Russian Foreign Ministry Konstantin Vorontsov, RIA Novosti reports.
Diplomat called on Germany, France and Sweden to provide the requested information by October 16. According to him, without this data it is not possible to confirm or finally refute the presence of a crime in the situation with the bulk.
“Consider the countries of the EU and NATO to stop nominating no printed accusations against the faithful States parties [the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons] KZO and engage in lifting facts in order to promote their own political interests,” Vorontsov emphasized.
On October 8, the Kremlin demanded from Germany for ten days to provide Russia with information about who accompanied Navalny during his flight from Omsk to Berlin. Also, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation recalled that the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany refused to provide data on the incident with Navalny at the request of even deputies of the Bundestag.