MOSCOW. Feb 3 (Interfax) - Western rhetoric concerning opposition activist Alexei Navalny is arrogant and inappropriate, but Russia will not stoop to obnoxious behavior in response, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"I understand those who believe that Russia could react more aggressively to the openly arrogant, inappropriate rhetoric of Western figures, but we in the diplomatic, political culture still aren't used to obnoxious rhetoric," Lavrov told a press conference on Wednesday.