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Putin called an investigation about the poisoning of Navalny "legalization of the materials of the American special services"
Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time commented on an investigation to poison the politician Alexei Navalny. Life journalist asked why the case was not initiated about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and who poisoned him.
"As for the patient in the Berlin clinic. I have said repeatedly. We understand what it is. This is the legalization of the materials of the American special services. We do not know that they are tracking the locations. Our special services know this. And they use phones where it is necessary. This patient Berlin enjoys the support of the American special services. This means that he does not need to poison him if we are needed. They would like to bring to the end.
The president called the investigation a trick to "attack the first persons" and "pull up to a certain level and caliber."
Later, the BBC journalist asked whether Putin would think that he was liable for the deplorable state of international relations due to the annexation of Crimea, poisoning in Salisbury and the attempt on Navalny.
Putin said that Russia is ready to investigate the famous blogger.
"If there is evidence that the" novice "was used, we ask you: give us this information. We insisted that our experts go to the place and deal with the colleagues with this problem. Or we ask you to come to us, bring biological material and at least give us an official conclusion. They do not give it to us," the president said.
Answering another part of the question, Putin said that "compared to you, we are white and fluffy."
"We freed from the Soviet dictatorship those countries that wanted to develop independently. The NATO military infrastructure is approaching our borders. Are we withdrawn from the PRO and RSMD agreements?" He asked.
Alexei Navalny said that Putin "recognized everything" with the poisoning of the opposition. “Awesome logic.” CIA tracks the phones of the FSB officers and therefore the FSB followed Navalny, ”wrote Navalny.
I looked. Putin recognized everything. In his style (CIA-Cru), but recognized everything. I realized that it is impossible to deny our reinforced concrete evidence. That is, yes, the FSB traveled for me on the heels of 4 years, but did not poison. Because "if they would like to poison, it would turn out" https://t.co/iy0cvq9yte
- Alexey Navalny (@navalny) December 17, 2020
After Putin’s press conference, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that they were “looking after Navalny”. To the additional question of the journalist why the Russian special services did not save Navalny from poisoning of sands.
After the press conference, Dmitry Peskov told reporters that they were "looking after Navalny." pic.twitter.com/9lsd7rqge1
- bbcrussian (@bbcrussian) December 17, 2020
- The publications Bellingcat, The Insider, CNN and Der Spiegel issued an investigation that stated that Alexei Navalny poisoned a special group of FSB officers who followed him for several years. Navalny himself concluded that such an operation could not be carried out without the sanction of the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Vladimir Putin and FSB representatives did not comment on the investigation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the publication of the possible involvement of the FSB to poison the politician.
- Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov canceled traditional briefings with the press after the investigation was released. He explained this with preparation for the presidential press conference.
- Three deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg sent an application to the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov demanding to verify the facts from the investigation of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. A similar statement addressed to the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin was filed by two deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies Lev Schlosberg and Arthur Gaiduk.