“Where is Laschet’s denunciation of Navalny’s arrest,“ referring to the newly elected head of the CDU, Armin Laschet, Omid Nouripour, foreign policy spokesman of the Greens, asked Sueddeutsche Zeitiung. “What Laschet has been missing for years, is to openly attack the war crimes of Russia and its handling of opposition figures like Alexej Navalny. Treating the Kremlin so selectively, will not enable him to keep Euope together.“
Sueddeutsche mentions that Laschet in 2018 was a western dissident on the Skripal issue. At that time, he tweeted, “If one wants to force almost all NATO states into solidarity, one should have safe evidence, shouldn’t one?” He wrote that, irrespective of one’s own views of Russia, “I have learned another conduct with states, in my studies of international law.“
