Alexei Navalny's alleged poisoning is 'planned action' against Russia

The alleged poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is a “planned action” against Moscow
Alexei Navalny's alleged poisoning is 'planned action' against Russia

MOSCOW: The alleged poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is a "planned action" against Moscow aimed to impose new sanctions and, as a result, to restrain its development, State Duma speaker VyacheslavVolodin said.

"The European Union (EU) and the NATO states obviously do not like the fact that the Russian economy is strengthening every year, that its influence on world processes is growing and that Russia has its own position and is ready to defend it," Volodin said in a statement published on the Duma or lower House of Parliament's website on Thursday.

"They do not want our country to be strong," he added. On Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Navalny, who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, the same type that was used in 2018 to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK, reports Xinhua news agency.

According to Volodin, when Russia was charged with poisoning the Skripals, it was an "obvious provocation" aimed at extending the sanctions imposed by Western countries on Moscow after its incorporation of the former Ukrainian republic of Crimea in 2014. (IANS)

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