For a long time it was not clear when the Kremlin opponent Navalny would return to Moscow.
The Russian authorities are investigating him.
He doesn't let that intimidate him.
Alexej Navalny
blames FSB agents for the poison attack.
Russian President
Vladimir Putin
sees no reason for poisoning the opposition.
Navalny
returns to his homeland despite the uncertain situation.
Updated on Wednesday, 01.13.2021, 10:00 am:
The treated for a poison attack in Germany Russian opposition activists
Alexei Navalny
has his return to the Sunday
Russia
announced.
He will fly to Russia on January 17th, Navalny said on
on Wednesday
.
On
Navalny
had been committed in August last year in Siberia, a stop with a neurotoxin from the Nowitschok group;
He was then flown to Germany and treated at the Berlin Charité.
No sooner has Russia's judiciary threatened Navalny with immediate imprisonment (by converting a suspended sentence into a prison sentence) than the latter announced his return to Moscow.
Sunday, January 17th
https://t.co/HktTTE53fG
- Christian Esch (@Moskwitsch) January 13, 2021
Opposition party poisoned: Navalny sued for defamation
Update from Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020, 10.15 a.m.:
The catering entrepreneur
Yevgeny
Prigozhin, known
as “Putin's cook”,
has
filed a lawsuit
against the Russian oppositionist
Alexej
Navalny for allegations of
defamation.
A Moscow court published the indictment, which is also directed against close
Navalny ally
Vladimir Milov, on its website on Tuesday.
The court informed the Russian news agency Tass that Prigozhin was demanding five million rubles (almost 55,000 euros) in damages.
59-year-old Prigozhin is known as
“Putin's cook”
because his catering company Concord
cooked
for the
Kremlin
.
The lawsuit concerns a video that was published on October 27 on
Nawalny's channel
on the Internet platform Youtube.
In it, the former Deputy Energy Minister and Navalny ally Vladimir Milov accuses the plaintiff of bringing minors to prostitution and describes him as a “bandit who does
all kinds of bad deeds
for
Putin
”.
Navalny
himself does not appear in the video.
Poison attack on Alexei Navalny: Russia imposes sanctions on Germany
+++ 1:15 p.m.:
Russia
accuses the Moscow opposition politician
Alexej Navalny of
“megalomania” and “paranoia”.
"That's probably how you have to behave," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to the Interfax agency.
Alexej Navalny announced
on Monday (December 21, 2020) that an employee of the
Russian domestic intelligence service FSB
had admitted to having been involved in the attack on him.
Navalny also published a transcript and a recording of the more than 45-minute phone call.
The FSB described the phone call as a "provocation", which would not have been possible without the "help of foreign secret services".
The FSB should be "discredited" by this, the recording published by Navalny was "falsified" (see also update 10.15 am).
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This handout, issued by the Kremlin, shows Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, watching a military exercise on the Black Sea.
© Alexei Druzhinin / dpa
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.
Meanwhile,
Russia
has imposed entry bans on representatives of the German government apparatus.
The Chargé d'Affaires of the German Embassy in Moscow, Beate Grzeski, was informed of this during a conversation in the Russian Foreign Ministry, as the German Press Agency learned from the Foreign Office in Berlin.
This is Moscow's reaction to the sanctions that the EU
has imposed
on the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny
for the
poison attack
.
The names of the persons concerned were not disclosed.
You will only find out about the sanction when you enter Russia.
The Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov
had already
announced the countermeasures in
mid-November
: "Because Germany was the locomotive for the EU sanctions in connection with
Navalny
and because the sanctions affect senior employees of the Russian presidential administration, our answer will be mirrored."
Poison attack on Alexei Navalny: Russia imposes sanctions
+++ 11.00 a.m.:
As a reaction to EU sanctions in connection with the
poison attack on the Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny
, Moscow has imposed entry bans on several representatives from EU countries.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that in response to “confrontational” EU measures it had decided to “extend the list of representatives of EU member states who are banned from entering the Russian Federation”.
In October, the EU imposed sanctions on Russian officials because, in its opinion, the poison attack on Navalny could not have taken place without the knowledge and approval of Russian state agencies.
Update from Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 10.15 a.m.:
The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned high-ranking diplomats from several EU countries to express its displeasure with the way these countries have dealt with the
poisoning attack on the opposition leader Alexei
Navalny.
The Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported that diplomats from Germany, France and Sweden had arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow.
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Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny claims to have phoned the alleged perpetrator.
© Navalny Instagram account
The
Russian domestic secret service FSB
had previously described
a phone call made by the Kremlin critic
Alexej
Navalny
with a suspected assassin as a fake.
The conversation, in which the alleged FSB man admits that Navalny was poisoned in the summer, was a "planned provocation to discredit the Russian FSB," said the FSB, according to the Ria Novosti state agency.
An investigation would be launched.
Alexej Navalny's reaction to the FSB outrage came promptly: “Hahahahaha,” he wrote on Twitter.
Other Twitter users did not skimp on ridicule either: “Putin, give the underpants back,” it said on an account.
Another user wrote that
Vladimir Putin
wanted to go down in history as the restorer of the world power Russia, but is now instead the "poisoner of panties".
Ахахахахаха
ФСБ: разговор Навального "подделка и провокация" pic.twitter.com/R7CSX8jmZ2
- Alexey Navalny (@navalny) December 21, 2020
Poison attack on Alexei Navalny: agent confesses
First report from December 21, 2020:
Who is responsible for the poison attack on the Russian opposition politician
Alexej Navalny
?
So
far,
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected any involvement by the Russian domestic intelligence service
FSB
.
But now it seems that a participating Russian secret service agent has admitted the attempted murder.
After researching the news magazines “Spiegel”, “Bellingcat” and “The Insider”, the agent revealed himself to Navalny in a 49-minute telephone conversation.
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"A solid terrorist act": Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Photo: Pavel Golovkin / AP / dpa
© Pavel Golovkin
Under the heading “I called my murderer.
He confessed ”,
Navalny
published a
recording of a phone call with the alleged FSB agent on YouTube.
In the conversation on December 14th, Navalny pretended to be an assistant to the head of the Russian Security Council in order to gain the man's trust.
They discussed details of the attempted murder.
Accordingly, the assassins applied the neurotoxin Novichok to the inside of Navalny's underpants.
FSB man Konstantin Kudrjawzew further describes that both he and another agent flew to Omsk after Navalny's collapse to collect the rest of Navalny's clothing and remove traces of the poison.
Navalny
had previously accused several alleged FSB agents by name and photo in a video of having carried out an attack on him in August with a neurotoxin from the Novichok group.
The chemical warfare agent is internationally banned.
In response, Russian President
Vladimir Putin
reacted sharply.
"Who is he already?
If someone had wanted that, they would have finished it, ”said the Kremlin chief at his annual press conference.
Poison attack on Alexej Navalny: treatment in Germany
Navalny
collapsed on August 20 on a flight from Tomsk in Siberia to Moscow.
Two days later, the 44-year-old, still in a coma, was brought to the Charité University Hospital in Berlin for treatment.
(red / cs with dpa / afp)
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