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Two weeks after the most serious poisoning of a dissident on Russian soil, Moscow has gone on the attack.

"There is no certainty that Germany is not playing a double game," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman

Maria Zajarova

, criticizing the lack of response from the German government to the request of the Russian Attorney General's Office on the case of the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Toxicological tests carried out by a German Armed Forces laboratory show that Navalny, who remains in a coma, was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok family.

Since then

the pressure has increased on Moscow, which is exposed to new sanctions

if it does not clarify what happened.

German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel described as "disturbing" the information about the "attempted poisoning" of the Russian opponent, "victim of a crime", and asked the Russian Government to explain itself.

But Russia, which for days has refused to open a criminal investigation for attempted murder, is now the one that appears to rush the investigations.

"By not responding [to the Russian request], Berlin is slowing down the investigation it requests," Zajarova insisted to the press on Sunday, referring to recent statements

by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas

.

The German minister had stated that he expects Russia to explain what happened to the Russian opponent, who is currently receiving treatment at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin university hospital in Berlin.

And he warned that if Russia does not do so in the coming days, Germany will have to consider together with its partners the possibility of taking necessary measures in this regard.

Zajarova believes that "if these statements by the German Government are sincere, then the Government itself should be interested in preparing as soon as possible a response to the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office", which submitted a request to the Federal Ministry of Justice and Protection to the German Consumer on August 27, requesting

legal assistance

in the framework of the investigation that the Russian authorities are conducting to establish all the circumstances of what happened with Navalny.

"We are ready to interact with Germany 24 hours a day," Zajarova told the Rossiya 24 network. But "if Berlin needs speed in the first place, this speed must be shown by Germany," the spokeswoman added.

Threat to Nord Stream 2

Germany on Saturday increased the pressure against Russia in connection with the poisoning case of the Russian opposition leader and threatened for the first time to

interrupt the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

that will carry Russian gas directly to Germany through the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

"In any case, I hope that the Russians will not force us to change our position on Nord Stream 2," the German Foreign Minister told 'Bild am Sonntag'.

The Russian opponent was transferred to Berlin from Russia on August 22 after spending two days in a hospital in the city of Omsk, where he was admitted after losing consciousness during a flight from the city of Tomsk (Siberia).

From Russia, poisoning was ruled out, even speaking of a sugar fall.

Some Russian media have added to the confusion talking about a poorly designed diet, cocaine, alcohol or a reaction to drugs.

Now the Government is unearthing the idea of ​​"alleged" poisoning, but to impute it to the West: the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Narishkin, affirms that he does not rule out that the alleged poisoning of the Russian opponent has been a

provocation of the western secret services

.

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