“We don't know if it was an accident or if he was deliberately poisoned.
It is illogical to blame the Russian government for this.
In my understanding, Navalny does not really matter and therefore is not a significant threat, ”Kimberly said.
Earlier, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that the EU could approve the regime of sanctions named after Alexei Navalny for violation of human rights - by analogy with the Magnitsky act in the United States.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that this idea is an attempt to give them a deliberately anti-Russian thrust.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in turn, stressed that Russia will not leave unanswered new Western sanctions if they are introduced.