Navalny Due To Fly Back To Russia With Threat Of Arrest Looming
January 17, 2021 06:27 GMT
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Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny is due to fly back to Russia on January 17 from Germany despite the Russian authorities stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years.
Navalny is expected to fly to Moscow from Berlin, where he has received months of medical treatment for a poisoning that he has blamed on the Russian authorities.
The outspoken Kremlin critic announced on January 13 that he would return to Russia despite having received a notice that the country s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) would seek his arrest.
Germany has sent to Russia the transcripts of interviews its authorities conducted with Aleksei Navalny, and demanded that Moscow carry out a full investigation into the poisoning of the Russian opposition politician.
Germany's government called for a thorough probe in Russia into the activist's poisoning. A Justice Ministry spokesman said the Kremlin had the clothing, blood and tissue samples necessary to carry out an investigation.
Germany has given transcripts of interviews with Alexei Navalny to Russia as part of Moscow’s probe into the poisoning of the Kremlin critic, a Justice Ministry spokesman said, demanding a thorough investigation into the crime.
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FILE PHOTO: An activist holds a portrait of opposition politician Alexei Navalny during a picket in his support in Saint Petersburg, Russia December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has given transcripts of interviews with Alexei Navalny to Russia as part of Moscow s probe into the poisoning of the Kremlin critic, a Justice Ministry spokesman said, demanding a thorough investigation into the crime.
The ministry said Russia now had all the information needed to carry out a criminal investigation into Navalny s poisoning in August last year, including blood and tissue samples. The German government assumes that the Russian government will now immediately take all necessary steps to clarify the crime against Mr. Navalny, the spokesman said.