The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova spoke about the role of the West in the “poisoning” of the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent) Alexei Navalny. This story was invented by Western countries, she said on the First Channel, she is quoted by RIA Novosti.
“This story [with the” poisoning “] immediately again returns public opinion in Western countries to the factor of alleged aggression by Russia, takes political science thought into the mainstream of” how can Russia continue to contain. “This explains a lot: why it is necessary to do so, and there is no other reason why NATO budgets need to be translated into even greater militarization, “the diplomat said.
In 2014, Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months of suspended imprisonment with a fine of 500 thousand rubles for fraud. The court later extended the probationary period for a year. In 2017, the ECHR, at the request of the Navalny brothers, decided that Russia had violated a number of articles of the European Convention on Human Rights in relation to them in the Yves Rocher case. In 2018, the Supreme Court of Russia resumed the proceedings due to the decision of the ECHR, but upheld the verdict. On February 2 this year, Navalny’s suspended sentence in this case was changed to a real one after the FSIN announced numerous violations of the suspended sentence.