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Russia points to haste conclusions about Navalny’s deliberate poisoning

German medics said on August 24 that clinical findings indicated poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors

MOSCOW, August 25. /TASS/. During consultations with visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun the Russian side drew his attention to the fact how hastily Washington and Brussels jumped at the conclusion that Russian opposition blogger Alexei Navalny was deliberately poisoned, the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

"The attention of the American official was drawn to the suspicious haste demonstrated by Washington and Brussels when they accepted the theory of willful poisoning of A.A. Navalny," the ministry said.

According to the ministry, in such situation it is logical to ask a question: "who is interested in it?" "Obviously, it is not the Russian leadership. Moreover, we once again expressed our readiness to probe, openly, unbiasedly and with really established facts in hands, into not only this concrete case but also the so-called Litvinenko and Skripal cases the Western media have recollected all at once as if on cue," the ministry noted. "So far, there are no answers to our absolutely concrete questions."

Navalny felt sick on August 20 while flying from Tomsk to Moscow and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk. The man was taken to hospital in a state of coma and was connected to a ling ventilator. He was airlifted to the Berlin-based Charite clinic in the morning on August 22.

German medics said on August 24 that clinical findings indicated poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors. The substance however was not identified.

Russian president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said earlier on Tuesday it was perplexing how quickly the poisoning theory had emerged, since the cause of the drop in the cholinesterase levels had not yet been identified. According to the Kremlin spokesman, Russian medics are ready to share the patients first samples and invite their German colleagues to exchange information. A criminal investigation, in his words, will be launched after the poisoning agent is identified.