Berlin hands transcripts to Moscow for probe into Navalny poisoning


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  • Saturday, 16 Jan 2021

FILE PHOTO: An activist holds a portrait of opposition politician Alexei Navalny during a picket in his support in Saint Petersburg, Russia December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has given transcripts of interviews with Alexei Navalny to Russia as part of Moscow's probe into the poisoning of the Kremlin critic, a Justice Ministry spokesman said, demanding a thorough investigation into the crime.

The ministry said Russia now had all the information needed to carry out a criminal investigation into Navalny's poisoning in August last year, including blood and tissue samples.

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