[ad_1]
Moscow (AFP) – Former ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the National Guard on Tuesday challenged Kremlin spokesman Alexei Navalny in "a duel" and threatened to turn it into a "steak".
Viktor Zolotov, dressed in his uniform, made threats and insults in a video message to Navalny.
"You, Mr. Navalny, have never faced recovery," said Zolotov, after denouncing Navalny's corruption as a slander. "No one has given a quality kick in the ass, in a way, you feel it in your liver."
"I'm just calling you to a duel, ring, tatami, anywhere, and I promise you a good steak in a few minutes," he said in the video posted on the site. official of the National Guard. .
Navalny published a video in late August that he sent to the employees of the National Guard, the agency responsible for dispersing the Russian demonstrations.
The agency's leadership, he says to the soldiers, "literally takes the food out of your mouth for profit".
The statement alleges that the agency buys poor quality food for its soldiers for too high prices.
Navalny is not ready to finish her 30-day sentence before the end of the month. His team, however, reacted to Zolotov's message with a mixture of horror and ridicule.
The video presents "very serious and open threats," said Leonid Volkov, former head of Navalny's campaign team, on Twitter, adding that Zolotov "must have forgotten" that Navalny was locked up and could not respond .
"They can not even hire good people with their stolen billions," writes Lyubov Sobol, who works for the Navalny anti-corruption center. "Six minutes of threats and not a single word to refute the facts and evidence in the investigation."
– Potty talk –
Previously, Navalny had claimed that Zolotov himself – a former Putin security chief appointed in 2016 to the newly created post – was "very wealthy" and that his family owned several luxury properties.
Zolotov in his video stated that he was "not a poor man" but accused Navalny of being a "rotten" American agent.
"When you still used the potty, I had served in the army, was a remarkable worker of communist work, worked in the industry and then went into business," said Zolotov.
"And who are you, Navalny, I want to understand what you're doing," he said.
"It is clear that you have been tested in an American test tube … you are responsible for eating everything … to destabilize the country's political and economic situation," he said. .
"You have no country, no homeland."
Zolotov added that "if you use abusive or slanderous language against me and my family members, I promise you that before you crush and wipe your feet, I will arrange a show for all employees of the Russian National Guard. "
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov appeared to approve of Zolotov's message, while denying Putin's approval.
"Sometimes you can use measures against flagrant slander," he told reporters, adding that the Kremlin does not consider him a threat of physical violence.
