Olaf Scholz: Anyone who expresses criticism or advocates for democracy must fear for their safety and life. He met Navalny in Berlin when he was trying to recover from the poisoning attack in Germany.

"We are with the family, the wife and child and all the relatives and friends. And that is something completely terrible, also as a sign of how Russia has changed," he says. Watch his statement in the video here. The full interview can be watched on CNN.com.