Navalny case ... Russia accuses Western experts of manufacturing "Novichok" toxin

The Russian Foreign Ministry said today, Saturday, that - for years - Western experts have manufactured "Novichok" poisons, which Germany said had been poisoned by Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.

And Moscow indicated that it had noticed the issuance of several hostile statements regarding the issue of the health of the opponent Navalny, who is one of the fiercest opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Foreign Ministry wrote in a statement, "With regard to these brazen statements that ... (Novichok gas) was developed here, it has become imperative for us to say the following: For several years, specialists in many Western countries and the competent bodies of NATO have resorted to using This is a broad group of chemical compounds. "

"In the United States, more than 150 patents have been granted to designers of technologies that have been used for military purposes," the statement continued.

And the German government had previously announced, in a statement, that the medical examinations conducted by Navalny in an army laboratory confirmed the existence of conclusive evidence that he was a victim of poisoning with a nerve gas of the type "Novichok".

Assault and victim 

And last week, German government spokesman Stephen Seibert suggested that the Russian dissident, who is in a coma in a hospital in Berlin, was a victim of a poison attack, justifying the protection provided by the police to Navalny in the hospital.

Accordingly, both the United States and the European Union called on Russia to open an investigation into the poisoning of Navalny, while Moscow said it was ready to conduct a comprehensive and objective investigation into what happened with the Russian opposition.

Navalny's health deteriorated while he was on a flight on 20 August, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in the Russian city of Omsk.

Russian doctors agreed to allow Navalny, the 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption activist, to be transferred from a hospital in Siberia, at the request of his relatives, to Berlin for treatment.