Lavrov says Russia has no medical information from Germany about Navalny

Germany did not provide Russia with the results of medical tests of Alexei Navalny (included by Rosfinmonitoring in the register of organizations and individuals involved in extremist activity or terrorism) after his treatment in the fall of 2020. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson published on December 6.

"There is no answer to the question where are the results of medical tests of the recently deceased A.A. Navalny, who was treated in Germany in the fall of 2020. At that time he felt bad on an airplane over Russia, the plane landed immediately. He was being treated by doctors in Omsk, but the Germans wanted to take him away. We immediately allowed their plane to land. They took him away, and in less than 24 hours he was in Germany," Lavrov told the journalist.

The minister noted that in the civilian clinic the patient was not found anything, and after treatment in the military hospital of the Bundeswehr there was a statement about poisoning. At the same time, Navalny, while serving his sentence in Russia, was already feeling "not very well" from time to time.

"This was another reason why we kept asking the Germans to show us the results of his tests, which they found. We didn't find what they found. I don't know what they did to him," Lavrov said, adding that the Germans did not explain to the Russian side either the treatment methods or what they found in Navalny.

Navalny was hospitalized in Omsk on August 20, 2020, after he became ill on a plane en route from Tomsk. The main diagnosis based on the results of examinations, Omsk doctors called a metabolic disorder, which caused a sharp change in blood sugar levels. What caused it remains unclear, but no poisons were found in Navalny's urine and blood, according to Omsk doctors.

On August 22, 2020, the blogger was transported to Germany by plane. The German clinic said that the Russian had signs of intoxication with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors. But the tests taken from him in Russia did not show their presence. The German side did not provide evidence of poisoning and ignored a number of requests from the Russian side.

Moscow said that Berlin had not informed the Kremlin of its findings, while the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Russia was waiting for a response from Germany to an official request on the situation: Moscow had sent three requests for legal assistance on Navalny's case to Germany over the past month, but had not received any answers. Even on the day of Navalny's hospitalization, the police and prosecutor's office began their checks.

On August 18, 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Navalny incident was a planned provocation aimed at discrediting Russia. The ministry noted that Germany never provided any verifiable evidence of its accusations against Russia, and the OPCW "stonewalled" Moscow's request for assistance, preventing the case from being opened.

Navalny's death became known on February 16. The Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District reported that after a walk the blogger felt ill and lost consciousness. The medical staff of the colony arrived on the scene, an ambulance crew was called, the doctors stated the death of the prisoner. The Izvestiya source said that the cause of death was a broken blood clot.