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  • 2020-10-08 (xsd:date)
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  • On Oct. 5, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a brief statement recounting a phone call between Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian. The statement refers to the poisoning of the Russian dissident activist and politician, Alexey Navalny.Navalny was hospitalized on Aug. 20 when he suddenly fell seriously ill during a flight from the Siberian city of Omsk to Moscow. Still in a coma, Russian authorities allowed him to be sent to Germany for treatment.On Sept. 2, a German laboratory found that Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok, the same nerve agent used to poison ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England in 2018.Labs in Sweden and France backed up the Novichok finding, as did the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global watchdog group in Geneva, this week. That didn’t stop Lavrov. The Russian Foreign Ministry statement on the Lavrov-Le Drian conversation reads:Sergey Lavrov pointed out that any attempts to make a political issue out of the so-called Navalny case (en)
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