The poisoning of Navalny only benefits the enemies of Russia.
The current discussion about the poisoning of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny could be a brilliant strategy of the West to introduce further sanctions against Russia.
This matter exclusively benefits the interests of the EU and the USA.
An unsupported conspiracy theory claiming that the poisoning of Aleksey Navalny was a secret project to introduce sanctions on Russia and to prevent the construction of Nord Stream 2. There are no grounds for connecting the Navalny case with sanctions on Russia or the construction of Nord Stream 2.
A prominent Russian opposition figure, Aleksey Navalny fell ill during a flight and the plane had to make an emergency landing in Omsk, where doctors said he was in a coma and they were trying to save his life. Since then, he has been transferred to Berlin and is receiving treatment at Berlin's Charité Hospital. The German federal government said that toxicological tests provided “unequivocal evidence of a chemical nerve agent of the Novichok group” in the blood samples of Aleksey Navalny.
The European Union condemned the poisoning of Aleksey Navalny in the strongest possible terms.
See related disinformation cases alleging that the US hopes that the Navalny case will lead to the cancellation of Nord Stream 2; the West will falsely accuse Russia of poisoning Navalny as with Skripal and Litvinenko; the West has an interest in the death of Navalny to launch a new wave of sanctions against Russia.
This step [is] another missed chance to get out of the dead-end in which the EU has driven itself in 2014 by linking the future of relations with our country with the situation in Ukraine.
EU should abandon the policy of unilateral restrictions that do not comply with the norms and spirit of international law.
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation about EU sanctions related to the illegal annexation of Crimea and the general situation in Ukraine.
Crimea is a part of Ukraine and was illegally annexed by Russia. In 2014, Russian troops obliged the parliament of Crimea to organise a referendum, which was illegitimate under international law, and then formally annexed the peninsula and brought it under Russian territorial control.
Since Crimea was returned to Russia in March 2014, relations between Russia and Western countries, including the United States, deteriorated and sanctions were imposed on Russia.
Crimea was not "returned" to Russia, it was illegally annexed in a military operation. A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the illegal annexation of Crimea.
Crimea is a part of Ukraine and was illegally annexed by Russia. In 2014, with Russian troops controlling the area, a referendum was hastily organised, illegitimate under international law. The peninsula was illegally annexed and brought under Russian territorial control.
The Security Council had closed the file of the so-called Joint Investigation Mechanism (JIM) in November of 2017 due to the false and unprofessional practices that marred the work of that mechanism as a result of pressures on its team from the United States, Britain and France.
One of the JIM reports accused Syria of one of the incidents of using toxic chemicals, the “Khan Sheikhoun” incident, based on narratives and assessments in which technicians and experts of this mechanism used presumptive and uncertain terms.
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative attacking the independence and integrity of the OPCW, and absolving the Syrian regime of responsibility for chemical attacks, especially the one related to the Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack.
The UN-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) mandate was subject to extension by the UN Security Council. However, the Mechanism was terminated in late 2017, after the Russian delegation repeatedly blocked UNSC resolutions calling for its extension. The Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) has thus been set up to investigate "cases for which (JIM) has not identified the perpetrators of chemical weapons use in Syria."
