WASHINGTON: The leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to consider whether the Russian government poisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny with a chemical nerve agent, which would subject Moscow to sanctions.
“We are very concerned by assessments that Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned in August 2020, by a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok family,” the committee’s Republican chairman, Senator Jim Risch, and its Democratic ranking member, Senator Bob Menendez, wrote in a letter to Trump.
The request – which followed a similar request from leaders of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Sept. 8 – added to growing international support for a response to Navalny’s poisoning. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said earlier on Wednesday her country would…
