Russia summons German envoy over Berlin comments on Navalny

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the German ambassador to Moscow over statements made by Berlin on the situation concerning Russian opposition politician Alexei Novalny.

44-year-old Novalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was airlifted to Germany last month after collapsing on a flight from the Serbian city of Tomsk to Moscow. German has concluded that Novalny was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok.

In a statement on her Facebook, the Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Germany of “bluffing”.

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