He is said to have set a trap: Alexey Navalny called one of his alleged assassins and got an explosive confession.
Meanwhile, Russia is imposing sanctions on EU countries.
Update from December 22nd, 1:23 pm:
The
Kremlin
has
accused
Alexej
Navalny of
"megalomania" and "
paranoia"
after his accusations against the Russian secret service FSB.
"That's probably how you have to act," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday
, according to the
Interfax agency
.
Navalny had
accused
FSB agents
of persecuting him for years and then
poisoning
him in August
with a neurotoxin from the
Novichok group
in the
Siberian city of Tomsk
.
Peskov said
Navalny was
trying to damage the reputation of the FSB with his publications.
"According to the constitution, the FSB fulfills a very important role: It protects us from terrorism, from extremism and from various deadly dangers," said Peskow.
“The FSB fulfills this role very well and very effectively.” Political scientists, on the other hand, called Nawalny's publications an unprecedented exposure of the FSB.
Update from December 22nd, 1 p.m.:
In response to the
sanctions imposed
by the
EU
for poisoning the Russian oppositionist
Alexej Navalny
,
Russia
has imposed
entry bans on representatives of the German government apparatus.
This was announced on Tuesday to the
Chargé d'affaires of
the
German Embassy in Moscow
, Beate Grzeski, during a conversation in the
Russian Foreign Ministry
, as the
German Press Agency
learned
from the
Foreign Office
in Berlin.
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov
announced the punitive measures in November.
The names of the persons concerned were not disclosed.
You will
only
find out about the
sanction
when you enter
Russia
.
First report from December 21, 2:45 p.m.:
Moscow - According
to the
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny
, an agent of the
Russian domestic secret service FSB
is said to
have admitted
the
poisoning attack
on him.
Under the heading “I called my murderer.
He confessed ”,
Nawalny
published a
recording of a phone call with the alleged FSB agent
on
YouTube
on Monday
.
Navalny
gave in the interview on December 14, thus as assistant to the chief of the
Russian Security Council
in order to win the confidence of the man.
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Alexei Navalny in front of the polling station in Russia in 2019 after his vote.
© Andrew Lubimov / dpa
The incognito call came as part of research by several media, including the news magazine "Spiegel".
The journalists had published research results last week, according to which at least
eight Russian secret service agents allegedly
carried out
the attack on Navalny
.
Navalny poses as a senior Kremlin official and calls one of his assassins.
“Where was the highest concentration of the poison?” Asks Navalny.
“On my underpants,” replies the FSB man.
"At which point of the underpants?"
"On the inside"
The whole recording: https://t.co/UwRvIzOB9R
- Andreas Kynast (@andikynast) December 21, 2020
Navalny attack: Kremlin critic lays trap - FSB agent is said to have admitted the attack
Navalny
had collapsed on a domestic flight in August.
The alleged
FSB man
said in the now published phone call that the poison was attached to the
inside of the underpants
.
Navalny only survived the attack because the flight did not last long enough.
At that time, the pilot made an
emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk
.
Navalny
was first taken to a hospital there and later
flown
to the
Berlin Charité
.
Navalny
is said to
have been poisoned
with a
chemical nerve agent
developed by
the Novichok group
in the
Soviet Union
.
Russia
had repeatedly denied allegations that it did nothing to solve the case and requested evidence.
On his big annual press conference had
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin
observation
Nawalnys
by the
Secret Service
acknowledged though.
The President had emphasized that there was no reason for his fiercest opponent to be poisoned.
(dpa)
List of rubric lists: © Andrew Lubimov / dpa