“The FRG should be urged not to support Nord Stream 2: the US demanded to punish Russia because of the situation with Navalny

A group of US senators has submitted to the US Congress a bill "to hold Russia accountable for malicious activity" in connection with the incident with Alexei Navalny.

The document proposes to impose sanctions on Russian officials "involved" in the "poisoning" of Navalny.

We are talking about freezing their assets and refusing to issue visas.

A separate paragraph of the bill is devoted to the need to intensify contacts with Berlin regarding the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

“According to the Congress, the US Secretary of State should urge the German government to no longer support the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from the Russian Federation, stressing the incorrectness of participation in the project,” the document says.

According to the congressmen, this will support the "state that kills its citizens";

at the same time, Nord Stream 2 "will strengthen Europe's dependence on the Russian leadership."

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Earlier this week, IG P&I companies refused to provide insurance to ships participating in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and the Turkish Stream project due to the threat of US sanctions.

The Nord Stream 2 project is two lines of a gas pipeline with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year, which pass through the exclusive economic zones and territorial waters of five countries - Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany.

As previously stated by representatives of a number of federal states of Germany, the gas pipeline is 97% ready.

The senators also called for "bringing to justice" the Russian leadership for "malicious actions in Belarus" and "interference in the American elections."

"In light of Russia's continued interference in our elections, as well as its other malicious actions in countries such as Belarus, Ukraine and Syria, as a result of which the situation in the world is becoming more dangerous, the purpose of this bill is to bring Putin and those close to him to account." said one of the sponsors of the bill, Democratic Senator from Delaware Chris Koons.

In addition, the US presidential administration proposed to determine whether the Russian authorities violated laws banning the use of biological and chemical weapons.

"Anything is used as a pretext for anti-Russian actions."

The first deputy chairman of the Federation Council committee on international affairs, Vladimir Dzhabarov, in an interview with RT, called the legislative initiative of American senators "a form of disgrace" that violates all norms of international relations.

“Apparently, the Americans are bored, they haven't introduced sanctions for a long time.

The person has already been discharged from the clinic, there are no traces of poisoning, there are no poisoning materials.

There are no doctors' reports.

Some general words of politicians, but they are already imposing sanctions without understanding.

It was exactly the same with the Skripals.

This policy is leading to a dead end and leading to a continuing deterioration between our countries, ”the senator said.

In turn, Dmitry Novikov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, also noted that so far the entire situation with Navalny is "covered in darkness."

He stressed that in Germany they do not help in any way to understand what happened, refusing to provide research results.

“All this unsubstantiated grounds on which they are gathering or expressing their readiness to introduce the next round of sanctions only emphasizes that anything is used as a pretext for anti-Russian actions.

Argued or not reasoned, artificially invented - it doesn't matter, for an information war, if it is considered that the topic is suitable, then it will be used, "the parliamentarian explained in an interview with RT.

On August 20, Alexei Navalny became ill on board an S7 airline flying from Tomsk to Moscow.

The airliner urgently sat down at the Omsk airport, from where Navalny was taken to a local hospital.

After doctors considered his condition stable, the patient was transported to the German clinic "Charite", where he stayed from August 22 to September 22 - on that day, Navalny was discharged due to his health improvement.

At the same time, while Navalny was undergoing treatment, German specialists conducted a study of his analyzes, allegedly revealing poisoning with a nerve agent from the Novichok group, while Russian doctors could not establish the presence of poisons in the patient's body while the patient was in Omsk.

On the eve, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that Germany did not respond to requests from the Russian side regarding the situation with Navalny, calling Berlin's behavior "undignified."

“We hear public comments, including official representatives of Germany, who say rather absurd things, for example, the thesis that everything that happened to Navalny happened on the territory of Russia, so we will not help you with anything, figure it out yourself, but we demand that you admit that you are guilty, ”Lavrov said during a press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

In turn, Russia's permanent representative to the OPCW, Alexander Shulgin, in a conversation with RT, noted that the degree of politicization of the situation with Navalny is off scale.

“It all becomes downright hysterical. Not a day goes by without calls to punish Russia and its leadership, to impose new sanctions, to freeze projects, including Nord Stream 2, ”the diplomat explained.