MOSCOW - Russia said on Wednesday that talk of possible sanctions over the case of Alexei Navalny was affecting its plans to borrow money on international markets, acknowledging the risk of harmful economic fallout from his poisoning.
Moscow is looking for extra sources of funding to make up a budget shortfall caused by lower oil prices and the Covid-19 pandemic, so any delay is potentially problematic.Navalny, the most prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin, fell violently ill and collapsed last month while travelling from Siberia to Moscow.
British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said during a visit to Washington:"From the UK's point of view, very difficult to see any plausible alternative explanation to this being carried out by the Russian intelligence services, but certainly the Russian government has a case to answer." "This is a commercial project that is absolutely in line with the interests of both Russia and European Union countries, and primarily Germany," Peskov said.
It added:"What would be the reason for the Russian authorities to poison Alexei Navalny, taking into account that his actual popularity level hardly reaches 2 per cent?"
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