The desire of the Baltic countries and Poland to act as guardians of human rights can only cause amazement, since it is there that the most real political repression and persecution of freedom of speech have been going on for many years, says Elena Panina, a member of the State Duma’s international affairs committee.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland draw up their own sanctions list of persons who, in their opinion, are responsible for the arrest of Alexei Navalny upon his return to Russia and the sentencing of him, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said earlier.
In an interview with RIA Novosti, Panina noted that such actions are quite natural, since the ruling circles of these particular countries have long turned into a kind of “watchdog” of the collective West.
The politician also noted that it is in one of these countries – Estonia – that the fugitive Russian businessman Sergei Kolesnikov is “based”, who appeared in Navalny’s film about the “palace” in Gelendzhik as one of the main “witnesses.”
According to the parliamentarian, it was he who “the inventor of the odious fake” about the “palace in Gelendzhik”, which served as a source of “creativity” for the notorious film by Navalny. Back in 2010, Kolesnikov sent a letter to then-president Dmitry Medvedev, in which he claimed that a “recreation complex” of Vladimir Putin was being built on the Black Sea coast. This statement was denied by Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov in the same year.
“In general, the striving of the Baltic countries and Poland to act as guardians of human rights can only cause amazement. In all these states for many years there have been real political repressions, persecutions of freedom of speech, witch hunts. It is not surprising that their representatives are used for the most aggressive and boorish attacks against Russia “, – stated Panina.
Businessman Arkady Rotenberg earlier said that he is the beneficiary of a complex of buildings in the Gelendzhik area, on Cape Idokopas, and the “palace” belongs to him, work on creating an apart-hotel there has been going on for several years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that he had not watched the film about the “palace” in Gelendzhik, since he did not have time, but had flipped through the videos that his assistants brought him. He noted that none of the property from the “investigation” belonged or belonged to either him or his relatives. The press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov noted that the Kremlin had known for a long time about the impending pseudo exposures and information attacks on the president, which are designed to rock the situation.