Former UN Deputy Secretary General, Deputy Secretary of the Public Chamber of Russia Sergei Ordzhonikidze believes that the visit of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to blogger Alexei Navalny in a clinic in Berlin is an unfriendly step towards the Russian Federation.
“When an official visit of a statesman to another country takes place, many Western partners meet with the opposition. We look at it normally, but here the situation is completely different… This is an unfriendly step. Merkel understands everything perfectly herself, she is an experienced politician. This kind of thing is done to infringe on Russia politically, to make Navalny a hero-martyr”? – Ordzhonikidze told RIA Novosti.
He admits that many other leaders secretly visited the Russian in the clinic. The expert added that during the visit, Merkel could instruct Navalny on how to proceed.
On Monday, the German weekly Spiegel reported that the German Chancellor secretly visited a blogger from the Russian Federation during his treatment at the Charite clinic.
On August 20, it became known that the plane on which Navalny flew from Tomsk to Moscow, urgently landed in Omsk due to the fact that he became ill during the flight. He was taken to the emergency hospital №1, the regional Ministry of Health confirmed that the patient is in intensive care.
The main working diagnosis made by Russian doctors to Navalny is a violation of carbohydrate balance and metabolism. On Friday, August 21, doctors allowed the patient to be transferred to Germany for treatment. On September 7, doctors from Charite reported that Navalny’s condition improved and he was brought out of a coma.
After Navalny was admitted to a German clinic for treatment, the German government announced, citing military doctors, that he was allegedly poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group of toxic warfare agents.
The German Cabinet said that these conclusions of the German experts were confirmed by the laboratories of Sweden and France, but did not give the names of the laboratories. In parallel, the OPCW, at the request of Berlin, began their own research in connection with the situation.
The Kremlin, commenting on the situation, said that Berlin, without informing Moscow about the findings, delays the provision of verifiable evidence. The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that Moscow is still awaiting a response from Germany to an official inquiry on this situation.