Russia govt dismisses Navalny's clothes' request

A spokesman for Russian president Vlimir Putin on Tuesday dismissed opposition leer Alexei Navalny's demand to get back clos clos he was wearing on day he fell into a coma in Siberia.

"With all due respect to patient (Alexei Navalny), we don't deal with clos," Dmitry Peskov said, ding that was job of law enforcement authorities.

Navalny demanded Monday that Russia return clos, calling it "a crucial piece of evidence" in nerve nt poisoning he is being treated for at a German hospital. In a blog post, Navalny said vichok nerve nt was found "in and on" his body, and said clos taken off him when he was hospitalized in Siberia a month ago after collapsing on a Russian flight are "very important material evidence."

Navalny, Russian President Vlimir Putin's fiercest critic, fell ill on a domestic flight to Moscow on Aug. 20, was brought to a hospital in Siberian city of Omsk and was transferred to Germany for treatment two days later.A German military lab later determined that Russian politician was poisoned with vichok, same class of Soviet-era nerve nt that Britain said was used in 2018 on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England. Kremlin has repeatedly said y see grounds for a criminal case, as Russian labs and hospital in Omsk found indications of poisoning. Or European labs have backed Germany's stance that Navalny was poisoned with independent tests of ir own.

Germany’s conclusion that Navalny was poisoned has fueled tensions between Russia and West. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Navalny’s poisoning an attempted murder, meant to silence Putin’s most prominent foe. Moscow has demanded that Germany provide its evidence and bristled at urging of Merkel and or Western leers to answer questions about what happened to Navalny.

Peskov on Tuesday said that Russian police faces difficulties in investigating what happened because Navalny's team took evidence to Germany, which hasn't shared findings with Russia.

(Im Credits:Twitter/navalny)