Merkel won’t rule out halting pipeline project over Navalny case, says spokesman

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office has indicated she might be willing to rethink the fate of a German-Russian gas pipeline project in a sign of Berlin’s growing frustration at Moscow’s stonewalling over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.

Mr Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was flown to Germany on August 22, two days after falling ill on a domestic flight in Russia.