Nwhen asked by the host whether he can guarantee that Navalny will get out of prison alive, the head of state replied that “such decisions are not made by the president in our country”.
Alexey Navalny (on screen)
The founder of the FBK (recognized as an extremist organization, the court decided to liquidate it), Alexey Navalny, who is serving a sentence in the case of “Yves Rocher” in the IK-2 in the Vladimir region, will be treated in the same way as other prisoners. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with NBC.
“He will be treated no worse than anyone else. In no way worse than in relation to others who are in prison, ” the head of state said.
The host asked Putin if he could guarantee that Navalny would get out of prison alive. “Such decisions are not made by the president in our country,” he replied.
When asked whether he had actually ordered the killing of Navalny, Putin said that the Russian authorities “do not have such a custom, to kill someone”.
The NBC host also asked the Russian president about the deaths of some of his political opponents and critics in recent years and the possible involvement of the state.
“I don’t mean to be rude, but it’s like some kind of indigestion, verbal indigestion. You mentioned many people who really suffered and died at different times for different reasons, through the fault of different people, ” the president replied.
According to the Russian leader, for many years in power, he is used to various attacks in his address. And therefore does not worry about the March statement of the American President Joe Biden, who agreed that Putin is a murderer.
“During my time in office, I have become accustomed to attacks from all sides and from a wide variety of areas under different pretexts, reasons, attacks of different caliber and severity. And this does not surprise me, ” Putin stressed.
Navalny’s suspended sentence was replaced with a real one on February 2. The Federal Penitentiary Service considered that he violated the conditions of serving his sentence in the case of Yves Rocher while he was being treated in Germany. There, the opposition leader lay in the Berlin clinic “Charite” after being poisoned in August 2020. In January, after a course of rehabilitation, Navalny returned to Russia, he was detained at the airport.
In December, CNN, Bellingcat and Insider released a joint investigation into what happened with Navalny. The publications claim that the Russian special services are behind the poisoning of the politician with the nerve poison “Novichok”.
In March, Biden, in an interview with ABC, answered in the affirmative when asked by the host if he considered Putin a murderer. The White House host also promised that the Russian president will pay for interference in the US election and cyber attacks on US agencies and companies.
Putin called the investigation “legalization of materials” of the US special services. “This is not some kind of investigation, this is the legalization of the materials of the US special services.”..”And if this is the case, and it is, I assure you, it means that this patient of the Berlin clinic, he has the support of the US special services in this case. But this does not mean that it is necessary to poison him, who needs him-that’s what the president said during a press conference.