German MP Viola von Kramon, a member of the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said that Alexei Navalny should have apologised for his words: “Whether it was the South Caucasus countries, workers from Central Asia or Crimea – in recent weeks and months he should have dealt with all those statements and apologised. But he hasn’t done so”
“He has never publicly repudiated them, quite the opposite. Many people, including in the European Parliament, have always been sickened by those statements”, – Kramon said, commenting on Amnesty International’s decision to strip Navalny of his “prisoner of conscience” status because of his nationalist remarks in the mid-2000s.
At the same time, the MEP did not abandon her calls for Navalny’s release, calling his imprisonment political