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FM Lavrov: Russo-EU Relations 'Rapidly Deteriorating'

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Speaking at a press conference alongside his Danish counterpart in Moscow, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that relations between Russia and the EU are 'rapidly deteriorating', and adds that Russia can do nothing about it.

  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRnqfihZwQ
  • Says Germany is ignoring international law with regards to the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Says that Germany have asked Russia to investigate the crime 'even though there is nothing to investigate'.
  • 'We don't like this high and mighty way in which Germany is acting'.
  • EU-Russia relations also strained over the ongoing protests in Belarus against the gov't of President Alexander Lukashenko.

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