Alexander Shulgin, Russia’s envoy to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), in an interview with RT on Nov. 30, concluded that the strange behavior of the West betrays a “hidden motive” that keeps them from actually investigating the Navalny case. They simply seek to “push Russia back to the periphery of international politics” and to “marginalize” its role.
He explained that Russia had provided “extensive answers” to all the OPCW questions, relying upon an investigation by Russian law enforcement which had “230 witnesses questioned, 64 biochemical analyses carried out and numerous items collected for comparative analysis.” No “traces of organophosphorus agents” were found. But the West’s response to the evidence presented was simply to call it “insufficient.”
