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Russia wants to send investigators to Germany to look into Navalny’s poisoning case
Russia, which previously said it had "no reason to investigate" Navalny’s poisoning will ask Berlin to allow its specialists to be present during Navalny's questioning.
The Transport Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry will send a request to Germany about the possibility to participate in the investigation into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry said.
"Investigation unit is preparing an additional request for …
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Italian Prime Minister: Putin promised to investigate Navalny’s poisoning
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte that he will establish a commission to investigate the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
"President Putin assured me in a recent conversation that Russia intends to clarify what happened and told me that he will create an investigative commission and is ready to cooperate with the German authorities," said Giuseppe Conte said in an interview with the newspaper Il Foglio.
He added that …
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Kremlin: at the moment Putin will not vaccinate against COVID-19
Russian President Vladimir Putin will decide whether to vaccinate against coronavirus if he sees fit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing on Wednesday.
According to RIA Novosti, Peskov was asked whether Putin would be vaccinated in order to attend international events.
"As for the president's vaccination, when and if he deems it necessary, he will report it himself," Peskov replied.
The day before it became known that Putin refused to go to the UN General Assembly in New York …
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Poland calls on Germany to stop construction of Nord Stream 2
On Wednesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on Germany to halt the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, as Warsaw sees it as a threat to the stability of the region.
The Nord Stream 2 underwater pipeline, which is expected to deliver gas from Russia to Germany, has been 90 percent completed. It is scheduled to be commissioned next year, but German politicians have said they may withdraw support for the project after the alleged poisoning of the leading Kremlin …
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Merkel decides to no longer defend Nord Stream 2
The poisoning of Alexei Navalny, who, according to Germany, was poisoned by a Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, seems to put an end to the North Stream-2 gas pipeline, which cost 10 billion euros and was stopped by U.S. sanctions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who for years defended the pipeline from attacks by the United States and Eastern European countries, abandoned her unequivocal position.
Berlin will not decide on its own the fate of the project, which was half paid for by European …