The Bundestag said they did not immediately receive a letter from the State Duma on Navalny

According to RT Deutsch, initially the press service of the Bundestag, in response to a request from the TV channel, claimed that the letter of September 24 was sent "without delay" to both the relevant committee and Shlund personally.

“Neither I, nor the secretariat of the parliamentary group, nor my employees received timely information about this letter.

Only on 06.10.2020, Mr. Müller provided me with information about this letter, which I then downloaded from the Duma website and in the morning on 07.10.2020 handed over to the translation service of the Bundestag, "Schlund commented on the situation.

According to him, after that he contacted the head of the State Duma commission to investigate the facts of interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia, Vasily Piskarev, and “hastily appointed” a meeting of members of the parliamentary group for October 8, in which he asked the authors of the letter to participate (via videoconference).

According to the request of another member of the Bundestag, Andrei Hunko, the letter was sent to the chairmen of the committee only on October 14, 2020.

Waldemar Gerdt, another German MP, said the letter was not sent until at least October 12.

“I believe that it is urgent to clarify the situation and not hush it up.

Apparently, Germany is not very interested in a quick and transparent investigation of the Navalny case, ”he said.

On September 25, the State Duma reported that the commission to investigate the facts of the interference sent a letter to the President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble, in which it suggested that parliamentarians of Russia and Germany exercise joint control over the investigation of the incident with Navalny.

The letter said that the "massive campaign launched by the Western media and a number of German politicians" about the allegedly deliberate poisoning of Navalny "is of a planned nature" - it is aimed at inciting confrontation and damaging the development of Russian-German relations.

On October 8, the chairman of the commission Vasily Piskarev met by videoconference with the chairman of the German-Russian parliamentary group of the Bundestag Robbie Schlund.