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Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny (February archive photo)
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The Berlin public prosecutor's office is supposed to provide legal aid to Russia in the case of the poisoned Russian opposition activist Alexej Navalny.
The investigators had been commissioned by the justice senate administration of the capital after a request by Russia, said the public prosecutor in Berlin.
According to this, they should - subject to Navalny's consent - obtain information about his state of health.
The request for mutual legal assistance from the Russian authorities was sent to the judicial administration last week.
If necessary, she wanted to decide on the approval in consultation with the responsible federal authorities.
Navalny was poisoned during a campaign tour in Siberia.
He fell into a coma on a flight on August 20th.
Since August 22nd, at the insistence of his family, he has been treated at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin.
Navalny has since been brought out of the artificial coma and is approachable.
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According to the federal government, a Bundeswehr laboratory has shown that Navalny was poisoned by a neurotoxin from the Novitschok group, which was developed in the former Soviet Union.
The finding has massively increased tensions between Berlin and Moscow.
The Russian government rejects any guilt in the Navalny case and called on the German government, among other things, to provide it with the Bundeswehr laboratory results.
The Russian Public Prosecutor's Office had therefore submitted a request for legal assistance in Germany at the end of August.
The Russian police also want to request an interview with Navalny in Germany.
As the Siberian police said on Friday, Russia wants to ensure that Russian investigators can ask "clarifying questions" to the opposition and other witnesses.
Russian investigators also want to accompany their German colleagues in their investigations.
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