{"id":16444,"date":"2020-09-04T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16444"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:47:39","slug":"us-deeply-troubled-by-alleged-poisoning-of-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16444","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;deeply troubled&#8217; by alleged poisoning of Navalny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US is &#8220;deeply troubled&#8221; by findings of German authorities regarding the alleged poisoning of Russia&#8217;s opposition leader Alexi Navalny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re deeply troubled by the results released yesterday. Alexi Navalny&#8217;s poisoning is completely reprehensible,&#8221; said White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.<\/p>\n<p>She said Russia used chemical nerve agents in the past and Washington is working with allies to &#8220;hold those in Russia accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany found \u201cunequivocal\u201d evidence that a nerve agent was used to poison Navalny last month, local media reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Signs of &#8220;a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok party&#8221; were found, Steffen Seiber, Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s spokesman, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Novichok was also used to poison ex-Soviet spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the British town of Salisbury in an attack by Russian intelligence in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>McEnany did not blame the Russian government or President Vladimir Putin but repeated a statement issued Wednesday from the National Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russian people have a right to express views peacefully without fear of retribution,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON The US is &#8220;deeply troubled&#8221; by findings of German authorities regarding the alleged poisoning of Russia&#8217;s opposition leader Alexi Navalny. &#8220;We&#8217;re deeply troubled by the results released yesterday. Alexi Navalny&#8217;s poisoning is completely reprehensible,&#8221; said White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. She said Russia used chemical nerve agents in the past and Washington is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1472,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16446,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions\/16446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}