She said this, commenting on the statements of German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas that the German side expects Russia to act in connection with the situation around Navalny in the "coming days".
“This concept simply does not stand up to criticism and really raises questions as to whether these statements of the FRG representatives have a“ second bottom ”for one simple reason.
I want to remind the chronology: on August 27, an appeal was sent from the Prosecutor General's Office to Berlin ... with the questions raised, and in general we expected, since it was transmitted promptly, the same prompt reaction.
What we see: there is still no answer, ”she said.
It turned out that only on Friday, September 4, the appeal was forwarded to the legal service of Berlin, Zakharova added.
“Not only was it transmitted only on Friday, it did not receive the appropriate prompt, as required by Mr. Maas, the reaction from this service,” the diplomat emphasized on the air on Russia 24.
The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman also drew attention to the fact that Russian doctors also turned to their German colleagues with a proposal for a number of specific operational steps for cooperation on the Navalny issue.
“We are trying, and we are doing this repeatedly, to urge Berlin to promptly respond to relevant requests.
After all, if we are talking about an investigation ... after all, it should be carried out in the legal plane, this is exactly the way we are going, ”she said.
As Zakharova said earlier, without responding to the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office on the situation with Alexei Navalny, Germany is hindering the investigation process, which it calls for.
According to the diplomat, there is still no certainty that a double game is not being played in Germany.