‘Politicizing the issue’: Russian Foreign Ministry accuses Merkel of using Navalny’s alleged poisoning for political gain

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Angela Merkel’s visit to Alexey Navalny was an attempt to politicize the situation, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry. The German Chancellor dropped in to see the Russian opposition figure when he was hospitalized in Berlin.

Speaking to Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio, the Ministry’s spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the chancellor’s visit had “nothing to do with the desire to find the truth” about what happened to an opposition figure who was allegedly poisoned,and was simply a political decision.

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