MOSCOW. Sept 2 (Interfax) - Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee head Leonid Slutsky has called on Berlin to provide information substantiating its declaration that opposition activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned in Russia.
"The German Cabinet of Ministers' statement on Navalny's possible poisoning must be supported by tangible and solid evidence," Slutsky told Interfax on Wednesday.
"As far as we remember, Berlin has still not responded to the relevant inquiry from the [Russian] Prosecutor General's Office, and Russian specialists did not find traces of any poison or indications that he [Navalny] was deliberately poisoned in his system," he said.
"Russia is interested more than anyone else in determining the true causes of this incident and has repeatedly displayed willingness to cooperate," Slutsky said.