Reactions The international community demands from Moscow the release of Alexei Navalny: "It is an offense to Europe"
Russia Navalny is arrested while crossing passport control in Moscow
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov
said Monday that the reaction of Western countries to the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny is intended to "distract attention from the crisis of liberalism."
Hours earlier, the spokeswoman for his ministry had
asked the West to take care of its "own affairs."
Navalny, wanted for violating the terms of his suspended sentence in the
Yves Rocher
case
, was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport upon arrival from Berlin yesterday.
Five months ago he was intoxicated with the nerve agent Novichok.
Various tests and testimonies point to the Russian state as the author of the attack.
"We see how now the whole world has taken advantage of yesterday's news about Navalny's return to Russia. Because it allows Western politicians to think that in this way they can
divert attention from the deep crisis in which the liberal development model finds itself.
"Lavrov said.
He was not the only Russian official who responded to the arrest by criticizing the West.
Western politicians who are making statements about the situation surrounding blogger Alexey Navalny must show "respect" for "international law and the laws of Russia," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Maria Zajarova
wrote on Facebook
.
Zajarova specifically addressed
Jake Sullivan
, who will be the national security adviser to President-elect Joe Biden, and who called for Navalny's immediate release.
"I would like to ask Mr. Sullivan and other foreign politicians who publish canned statements, to respect international law, refrain from breaking the laws of sovereign states and address the problems of their own countries," the Russian spokeswoman said.
Navalny is now
awaiting a court decision
on the lawsuit from the Federal Prison Service.
Russia has not launched any investigation into the attack that nearly cost him his life.
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