Alexey Navalny gave his first published interview today, after his hospital stay, to Der Spiegel, featuring his bald conclusion: “I assert that Putin is behind this act, I don’t see any other explanation.” Navalny’s eyesight aside, most people, lacking any other explanation, may surmise or propose the one explanation they prefer. Navalny simply asserts.
Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Federal Assembly, responded: “Navalny is a shameless and mean man. Everyone — from pilots to doctors to the President — were sincerely saving him. Only a dishonorable man can make such statements. It is absolutely obvious that Navalny is working with the security services and authorities of Westsern countries,” reported the Duma website.
