Paccording to the American president, Putin tried to explain to him the reasons for his attitude to Navalny. At the same time, Biden considered it wrong to compare the Russian opposition and Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol
Joe Biden
The consequences for Russia will be devastating if Alexei Navalny dies in prison. As US President Joe Biden said at a press conference in Geneva, answering a question from one of the journalists, he warned Vladimir Putin about this during the meeting.
“When Putin said that he was not going to hurt Navalny, he rationally tried to explain how he treats him. I explained to him that I think this issue is very important, ” Biden said. After that, the American leader began to talk about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom he considers guilty of using chemical weapons.
Biden was also asked to comment on the words of Putin, who said that he did not want Russia to repeat the events of January 6 in Washington, when supporters of Donald Trump broke into the congress building. Biden chuckled and said that comparing the confrontation with the opposition in Russia and in the United States is ridiculous. “In one case, these are criminals with guns who broke into the Capitol and killed a security officer. How can this be compared to the opposition in Russia, which is trying to defend its right to speak out and speak frankly?”raquo;” said the American president.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin, commenting on the situation with Navalny, said that he proceeds from the fact that “this gentleman deliberately went to be detained”. “He did what he wanted,” the Russian president said.
In addition, during a press conference in Geneva, Putin said that the FBK, recognized as a foreign agent and an extremist organization, ” involved minors in street events, and also gave instructions for making Molotov cocktails.”
Since the end of August 2020, Navalny has been undergoing treatment in Germany. In a serious condition, the opposition leader was taken from Omsk to the Berlin clinic & laquo; Charite & raquo;. There, doctors assessed his condition as characteristic of organophosphate poisoning. Doctors from the Omsk hospital, where the politician spent two days before being sent to Germany, did not agree with the conclusions of their colleagues from Charite. The president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov also spoke about the absence of toxic substances in Navalny’s body before he was sent to Berlin.
After returning to Russia, Navalny was detained. The Federal Penitentiary Service considered that he violated the rules of probation, since he did not register at his place of residence during his stay abroad.
In early February, the court, at the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service, replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence in the case of Yves Rocher with a real one. He is due to be released in late July & mdash; early August 2023.
On June 9, the Moscow City Court granted the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office, recognizing the FBK and Navalny’s Headquarters as extremist organizations. “The actual goals of their activities are to create conditions for changing the foundations of the constitutional order, including using the scenario of the “color revolution”, ” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.