“There is no material on this novelty. How do you explain that? ”Said Putin, who, as before, did not say Navalny’s name, speaking of him only as a man who was supposed to be poisoned.
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According to Putin, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has repeatedly tried to obtain any materials from Germany that would confirm the poisoning, but never received them. According to Putin, he even suggested to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron that Russian specialists could come to Europe and cooperate in the investigation.
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“Give us reasons to start criminal proceedings,” Putin said, adding that no such evidence had come. “Nothing. Zero. How to explain it? ”
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An opposition politician and blogger collapsed last August aboard a plane returning to Moscow. He was first treated in Omsk, Siberia, where the machine made an emergency landing, and later, after international pressure and urging of his family, was unconsciously transported to Berlin. German doctors found traces of poisoning in his body, and in October the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed the presence of the substance in the body of Navalny. Moscow claims that Russian tests have not revealed traces of poison.
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Navalny is now serving a 2.5-year prison sentence for violating an earlier sentence of embezzlement charges. He did not meet the condition of regularly reporting to the authorities because he was in a coma in a Berlin hospital. The European Court of Human Rights considers the trial unfair.
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That he was imprisoned? They have prisoners everywhere
Regarding the imprisonment of Navalny, Putin said: “There have always been prisoners in all countries.”
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According to him, he should not have committed crimes under the guise of politics. “Russia cannot be defeated, only subverted from within,” he said. According to him, this happened during the First World War, when the revolution broke out, and then in the 1990s.
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For the first time, Putin was critical of the Great October Socialist Revolution, and he showed some distance to it in another response to ensure Russia’s security.
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Regarding the law restricting the activities of organizations paid from abroad, he said: “I agree with you that there is nothing good in the register of foreign agents. This law was not invented by us, but by the state, which is considered a beacon of democracy (USA). ” According to him, out of 200,000 organizations registered in Russia, only 74 are designated as foreign agents.
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