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The Kremlin’s most famous critic, Alexei Navalny, could be sent to the United States if he is a US citizen or affiliated with the country’s intelligence services.
This stated on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio, the press secretary of the Russian presidency Dmitry Peskov. According to a Kremlin spokesman who also commented the topics of the meeting of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden in Geneva, “the Navalny talks went routinely,” a matter raised by the United States. “There was a response from the president of Russia. And as you know, the meeting in a small circle is never retold verbatim.”
The Kremlin, and especially President Putin himself, has avoided mentioning Alexei Navalny’s name. Critics of the government believe that this is a conscious choice so that he is not legitimized as a political opponent in the Russian public space. Bulk lying down a sentence of two and a half years in prison, which replaced probation in an old case this spring. He was also arrested convicted, because he did not appear for a suspended sentence during his treatment in Germany from poisoning with a neuroparalytic substance from the group “Novice”.
According to Peskov, the specific possibility of Navalny being among the exchanged prisoners between Russia and the United States was not discussed during the talks, although the topic of prisoners was generally touched upon.
Russian authorities say Navalny’s poisoning was directed by the West. On several occasions, Putin also spoke of a connection he sees between him and other critics and the US services. Peskov said that according to the information available with Navalny, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Navalny denies being an American agent. He and his supporters, whose organizations were declared extremists last week, insist that Russia’s allegations they only aim to discredit them.
For its part, the West blames Russia for the poisoning because of its refusal to cooperate and even to accept that the assassination attempt on a domestic flight in August last year did take place. According to Navalny, Putin personally issued the order for his poisoning. In an interview with NBC broadcast in recent days, the Russian president stated: “We have no habit of killing anyone.” Wed. his other comments the point is that if the authorities were really behind such poisoning, they would “finish the job”.
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