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Germany was targeted with “unjustified tit-for-tat sanctions” by Russia in response to sanctions imposed by the EU due to Alexey Navalny’s alleged poisoning.
This was reported by AFP, citing an unnamed German foreign ministry source.
The charge d’affaires at the German embassy in Moscow, Beate Grzeski, was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry and informed that “countermeasures in the form of travel bans against German state institutions have been ordered”, the source said.
“While this past pattern of Russian countermeasures is known, they remain in the view of the German government unjustified,” the source added.
The Navalny affair “is not a bilateral case,” the German official said, but rather “remains a case of international dimensions due to the violation of international law with the use of chemical nerve agents”.
“We continue to call on Russia to clarify the use of a chemical weapon on Russian territory against a Russian citizen,” the source said. “Russia has shown no willingness to do so.”
The Russian foreign ministry said earlier it had “decided to expand the list of representatives of EU member states and institutions who will be denied entry to Russia” in response to “confrontational” sanctions imposed by the bloc in October.
The counter sanctions were announced after Moscow summoned senior diplomats from Germany, France and Sweden, the three countries where labs alleged that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that it was expanding its list of retaliatory sanctions, TASS reported, on December 22nd.
The Foreign Ministry dismissed as “categorically unacceptable” the introduction of illegal restrictive measures (initiated by the EU’s leading member-states) against a number of Russians on the pretext of their alleged involvement in the Navalny case.
“The countries that initiated this measure presented no evidence either to the Russian authorities, in defiance of repeated requests dispatched to them, or to their own partners in the EU. Under the veil of secrecy the EU Council adopted a hasty confrontational political decision running counter to the international legal prerogatives of the UN Security Council and the Helsinki principles of non-intervention in the internal affairs, cooperation among states and diligent compliance with obligations assumed under international law. The concrete names were selected arbitrarily to match the EU Council’s decision in question,” the Foreign Ministry said.
“In connection with the aforesaid and in accordance with the principle of retaliation a decision has been made to expand the list of EU countries’ representatives who are prohibited from entering Russia. The persons on the list are responsible for stepping up anti-Russian sanction activity in the European Union,” the Foreign Ministry stated.
The chiefs of German, French and Swedish diplomatic missions were handed the corresponding verbal notes. Such a note was dispatched to the office of the EU mission in Moscow, too.
“We confirm that unfriendly steps by Western countries will continue to entail an adequate response,” the Foreign Ministry said.
Interestingly, Germany maintains the version that Novichok was discovered on a water bottle that Alexey Navalny had with him.
They still aren’t on board with the conclusions of the Bellingcat “investigative website” and Alexey Navalny himself, who allegedly managed to fool an FSB agent into revealing the operation over the phone.
According to the newest scenario, his underwear was actually laced with Novichok, but that also failed to kill him.
Why would FSB poison a marginal opposition figure, botch it so that he survives, & then get easily caught? Easier ways to kill someone if they want to. Perhaps it’s a Mafia-esque warning shot to people like Navalny they accuse of working w/ Western intel. Thuggish, but plausible.
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) December 21, 2020
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First Germans should show their evidence. Russia has no obligation to fullfil any requests by non state actors and foreign entities. Germany is a CIA colony, if you play stupid games win stupid prizes. Was about time Russia plays hard ball. Germans dont understand diplomacy and mutual respect at least not on state level, if we look at history thats nothing new it was always the case since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Russia should also tell them thats only the start, if Germans keep up the CIA narrative and false accusations Russia can bankrupt germany at any given time only takes to push 2-3buttons turning off the gas which runs the german economy which is the juggernaut of the EU economy. They alone export more than the whole U.S. If Germany goes belly up the whole EU is finished. So the question is…is it worth to lick cia and soros boots and risk everything Germans achieved in the past 60 years. I doubt… Keep up the pressure Russia, make them cry and rage ?
there is NO sovereign germany !!!!
they cant decide SHITv !!!!
…like sooo many others…
Merkel is an MI6 operative, going back more then 30years and Germany decides nothing. Even Merkels bodyguards are all Mossad…
I thought they were AT&T employees, lol.
I agree, Russia has been far too soft on this international goofiness, and the ignoring of law, protocols, agreements, and good sense.
There’s nothing like western hypocrisy.
Look, Russia said that they have had enough weeks ago. What is highlighted in this article is no suprise. I agree with the inference that this is merely the beginning of much tougher times to come with Russia, for the EU. The Russians have been patient since 2014. I perceive the party to be over EU; grow up or get ready for some mighty tough sledding with Russia. My take all.
Not wrong and with the recently amended Constitution the EU has lost virtually any influence in Russia; the Constitution signed by Putin states that Russian interests come first and any external foreign departments like the EU Human Rights are to be ignored.
The Europeans don’t know how lucky they are this is happening with Russia and not the US. Had this BS been happening with the US, their gas supply would be having ‘delivery issues’ of a ‘technical nature’. Which would mean that someone pulled the plug and would stay that way until they caved in. That’s the diplomacy the US uses. As far as the US and the EU is concerned courts just get in the way of ‘policy’. Wait until Britain needs another emergency supply of gas to keep from freezing to death. Putin should tell them to burn novichok. since there seems to be a lot of it around.
Conclusion:
Germans will always be Germans.
Period.
Germany: I dont like you.. “slap”
Russia: If you wish… “slap” Germany (sobbing): For whaaaaaaat??
End of retarded but true story..
Why would Russia use Novichok if it has shown bad efficiency, victims just won’t die of it ?
I guess the Russians were trying to prove that Novichok can kill a man if sprayed in a man’s balls.
hahah maybe :D
I don’t like travelling, because, why exactly would I want to leave the comfort of my country, my home? Why would I want to sleep in a dirty hotel bed that millions had been sleeping in it before? What do such countries have that my country doesn’t? Therefore, I doubt such sanction (travel ban to Russia) has any effect on most if not all of the Germans on that sanction list.
I also think that tit-for-tat sanctions are not “justified” or enough. Russia is justified to at least double the ante and even to completely cut everything with Germany and the west. This is unbearable. I used to think differently, but now I think it’s time to allow Germany to sink in its own madness and simply disappear, turn into the nothingness that they invested themselves into. Such a ridiculous crap state.
Sanctions, sanctions! The main question at Russian Telegram channels now is how did Novichok was transmitted from Navaliny’s underwear to the neck of the Navalniy’s bottle with water. If you do remember, Germans found Novichok at Navaliniy’s bottle neck first.
Lol, these germanistanies lost their mind, they create the problem by obeying the U.S imperialist machine, then they cry like bitches, jesus christ…
please
Germany should stop sucking Russian Oil from Putin’s teat …
F/K mother russia …
the racist shallow self uglified Canuck lumberjack shows her childish backward self …”the people of north amerika accept a level of ugliness in their daily lives nearly with out precedent in the history of western civilization”. Yuri Bezmenov LOL
Yuri who? lol
The winner from this is the US as that is what they want. A deepening rift between Germany and Russia which they hope will lead to the collapse of the Nord 2 gas pipeline. They do not want Russia and Germany to work together . That is why they used Novichok on navyman.
exactly, since after ww2, the policy is to keep germany down and russia away. The anglo-zio empire are very afraid of these two countries coming together as allies. also since ww2 in germany there is a policy to assure patriotism would never rise again but this is also policy in many vassal countries, dilute the races ethnicity, religions, cultures, family values and morals, divide and conquer, create laws to give minorities more rights, opportunities and privileges, then use the MSM and laws to shape you into being compliant to the agenda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skushjQwFoA
Europe needs Russia more than Russia needs Europe. As the United States implodes, is this just Karma?