The Ministry of Internal Affairs called the incident with Navalny a planned provocation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called it an amateurish performance

Russian officials made several conflicting statements about the Navalny case on the same day. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the incident “supposedly poisoning”, and what followed was “an amateurishly staged performance”, the Ministry of Internal Affairs pointed to a “well-planned provocation”, and the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, spoke about the West developing the poisoning of a prominent opposition leader in order to intensify protests.

Accompanying oppositionist Alexei Navalny in Tomsk, Vladlen Los, Maria Pevchikh and Georgy Alburov evade appearing before the investigator. Their actions testify to a well-planned provocation, according to the website of the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Siberian Federal District.

“Currently, these persons are avoiding appearing before the investigator and answering questions of interest to the investigation, and their actions indicate a well-planned provocation,” follows from the official statement.

According to the department, the diagnosis of "poisoning" according to the results of clinical, anamnestic and chemical-toxicological studies has not been confirmed. “The final diagnosis is a violation of carbohydrate metabolism (basic); chronic pancreatitis with impaired external and intrasecretory function, exacerbation (concomitant)”.

Navalny doubted the plausibility of this diagnosis. “I went through a medical checkup every year and there are my tests for several years. As of August 20, 2020, I was completely healthy, ” assured on his Twitter. the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also commented at length on the situation "with the poisoning" of Navalny. After analyzing the chronology of events, the ministry came to the conclusion that “everything that is happening is an amateurishly staged performance, the main idea of ​​which is another sanctions “shot” against Russia, which firmly stands on its positions of rejection of certain “rules” imposed on it in damage to its national sovereignty, international law, and just common sense.”

The Prosecutor General's Office today announced that it had received a response from the competent authorities of Germany on inquiries regarding Alexei Navalny. They contained a request to provide additional data on the situation, but Berlin did not answer any of the questions posed by the Russian side.

• Navalny fell into a coma on August 20 during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. Russian experts did not find poisonous substances either in his body or on his clothes. Two days later, the oppositionist was airlifted in a serious condition to the Charite clinic in Berlin. Her doctors diagnosed her with poisoning with a substance of the cholinesterase inhibitor group, which includes Novices.

• Navalny's poisoning with poison from the Novichok group . confirmed In mid-September , independent laboratories in France and Sweden