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Renaud Girard: "With the Navalny affair, Russia is shooting itself in the foot"

2020-09-07T18:12:30.870Z


CHRONICLE - If it is difficult to build a rational scenario that would explain the poisoning of the most famous opponent of Vladimir Putin, what would be the different options?


On September 6, 2020, the German government sent a quasi-ultimatum to the Kremlin: either you explain to us what happened to your opponent Navalny, poisoned by a military neurotoxicant comparable to that which had been administered in England to the former double agent Skripal by two GRU officers in March 2018, or we will consider asking the Council of the European Union for sanctions against you.

A questioning of the large North Stream 2 project under construction (a gas pipeline directly connecting Russia to Germany via a route of 1,230 km under the waters of the Baltic Sea) has not been completely ruled out by the Minister of Foreign Affairs .

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Victim of poisoning, Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny came out of an artificial coma

In a plane that brought him back from Siberia to Moscow on August 20, Alexei Navalny, the best known and most determined opponent of Vladimir Putin, was suddenly seized with unease, rolling on the ground in pain.

The pilot applied for an emergency landing clearance at Omsk airfield, which was granted.

An ambulance

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Source: lefigaro

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