Navalny sues Peskov over allegations of working for the CIA

Alexei Navalny has filed a lawsuit against the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov. The filing of the claim was confirmed by the press service of the Presnensky Court of Moscow, writes Air force.

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The Russian oppositionist referred to the news agency TASS under the headline "Peskov said that Navalny's accusations against Putin were inspired by the CIA, they are unacceptable." Navalny demands to recognize two statements of Peskov as untrue and defamatory:

First: “In general, given that CIA specialists are working with the patient, everything he voices is what this organization puts into his mouth.”

Second: “It is better if this organization conducts a dialogue not with us through him, but directly with its Russian colleagues - the SVR, the GRU and other special services.”

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On October 1, the German edition of Der Spiegel published an interview with Navalny, in which he expressed the opinion that President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in his poisoning. On the same day, Peskov, commenting on this statement, said that CIA specialists were "working" with the opposition, they write Open Media.

Commenting on the statement of State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who called the situation with Navalny’s poisoning “orchestrated” by Western intelligence services, Peskov’s representative said: “I can even say specifically that specialists from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America are working with him these days.”

Navalny even then called these “ridiculous accusations” and promised to sue the Kremlin representative.

“If the state authorities, on behalf of which Peskov speaks, have evidence of the nonsense that he is talking about, then this is a matter of Russia's state security, and I demand that this evidence be published,” the oppositionist stressed.

The next day, a spokesman for the Russian president declined to comment on the politician's intentions.

“I recommend re-reading what I said yesterday,” Peskov told reporters in response to a request.

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Navalny also asks the court to order the defendant to publish on the official website of the presidential administration (kremlin.ru) a refutation of the above statements.

Will it Navalny's claim adopted in proceedings, it will become clear until next Monday, November 23, a spokesman for the court told Open Media.

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