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| - The Kremlin said Wednesday that Russia was ready to cooperate fully with Germany over the case of opposition leader Alexei Navalny after Berlin confirmed he was poisoned with a nerve agent. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists: "In general we confirm that we are ready and have an interest in full cooperation and exchange of data on this topic with Germany," quoted by RIA Novosti state news agency. Peskov complained that Russia had not received an answer to its request for German doctors to share their findings. He insisted that before Navalny was evacuated to Berlin on August 22, Russia had not found traces of poisoning, reflecting earlier statements by doctors. "Before the sick man was taken to Berlin, a whole set of tests were carried out in our country in accordance with all international standards, no poisonous substances were detected," he said, not using Navalny's name as is Kremlin practice. Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova slammed Germany for not providing Russia with evidence for its statements in comments on state television. She complained that Russia's ambassador to Germany, Sergei Nechayev, who was summoned to the foreign ministry Wednesday, asked for evidence and received "no answer, no facts, no data, no formulae". "Russia as before expects an official answer from Berlin to the request of the Prosecutor-General's Office" to share medical data on Navalny, she said. am/har
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