Lugovoy says allegations around Navalny's condition might be provocation against Russia

Record ID: 1569058

  • Title: Lugovoy says allegations around Navalny's condition might be provocation against Russia
  • Date: 29th August 2020
  • Summary: KRASNODAR REGION, RUSSIA (AUGUST 29, 2020) (REUTERS VIA ZOOM) (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER, CHAIRMAN OF PARLIAMENT COMMISSION TASKED WITH INVESTIGATING NAVALNY POISONING, ANDREI LUGOVOY, SAYING: "A professional work by the special services could lead the statements by the representatives of the German hospital in a favourable way. Moreover, this hospital is known for receiving members of opposition from all over the world and they diagnose all of them as 'poisoned'. One can not bring them someone who was not poisoned. They will say it's poisoning in any case."
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2020 18:52
  • Keywords: German hospital Lugovoy Navalny Russia Russian authorities alleged poisoning
  • Location: MOSCOW AND KRASNODAR REGION AND OMSK, RUSSIA / BERLIN, GERMANY
  • City: MOSCOW AND KRASNODAR REGION AND OMSK, RUSSIA / BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA008CTAXKJR
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Russian parliament member and a former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoy said on Saturday (August 29) claims Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's illness was a poisoning could be a provocation by the western intelligence services.
    Lugovoy told Reuters that western leaders made aggressive statements towards Russia from the very moment that Navalny's illness became known to the public.
    Lugovoy said the current Russian political establishment would not benefit from the situation with Navalny, a long-time opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin and campaigner against corruption.
    Navalny is currently in a medically-induced coma in a Berlin hospital where he was transferred last week from a hospital in the Russian city of Omsk.
    Lugovoy is suspected by London of killing Kremlin critic and former KGB and FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. Litvinenko died after receiving a dose of radioactive polonium-210, a rare and highly toxic isotope. Lugovoy has always denied the allegations.
    (Production: Dmitry Turlyun)
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