Kremlin says Navalny suffers delusions of persecution
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that opposition leader
Alexei Navalny was a “sick” man who suffered psychological complexes
surrounding authority and power, after he claimed Russian security services had
poisoned him.
Navalny said on Monday that the FSB security service
was behind an attempted assassination by poisoning in August in an incident
that led the European Union to sanction senior Russian officials.
The 44-year-old anti-corruption campaigner has
“delusions of persecution,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry
Peskov said, adding that Navalny also exhibited clear “traits of megalomania.”
The FSB Monday described evidence provided in
Navalny’s claims as “fake” and accused the Kremlin critic of having received
support from foreign intelligence services.
Peskov said Monday that the FSB “protects you and me
from terrorism” and described the domestic intelligence agency as “effective.”
He added: “Such attempts cannot discredit the FSB.”
Navalny fell violently ill during a flight from
Siberia to Moscow in August and was hospitalized in the city of Omsk before
being transported to Berlin by medical aircraft
