Lavrov: The Navalny case is like Salzburg and the plane crash in Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov compared Germany's behavior in connection with the case of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to the case in Salisbury and the downing of the MH17 plane in Ukraine.

"When the spokesman for Germany announces that the request of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia has been submitted to independent legal authorities and therefore the German government cannot do anything about it, but at the same time demands that we conduct an investigation, it reminds us of the precedents created by our Western colleagues after the poisoning in Salisbury, when everything was secret," Lavrov said, reports Tas.

As he said, the Russian side still does not have any information, among other things, about the whereabouts of Russian citizens Sergei and Yulia Skripal.

According to him, the story with the crash of the Malaysian "Boeing" in 2014 over Ukraine is being repeated, when the Dutch side regularly accused Russia of refusing cooperation in response to the numerous efforts of official structures to provide the information we had.

"If the same logic now prevails among our Western colleagues, primarily German, but also American, it will only be a confirmation that they are placing themselves above the law," Lavrov said.

Commenting on the statements of the American side about the involvement of Russian officials in the situation with Navalny, Lavrov said that those accusations are unfounded and that the Russian side is used to it, reports Tanjug.

Kremlin: Why Berlin did not provide data

The Kremlin would have preferred that Berlin had directly passed on information related to the Navalny incident to Russia and wonders why there have been some difficulties in this regard, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.