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The Saudi crown prince came under fire for the killing of a Saudi journalist in Turkey. Now, Russia is trying to secure Muhammad Bin Salman about the U.S allegations. The deputy foreign minister of Russia, Mikhail Bogdanov warned that the U.S should not try to influence the line of succession in Saudi Arabia. He signaled that Moscow believes the 33-years old Saudi prince should succeed his father as king.

Bogdanov informed reporters, “The king made a decision and I can’t even imagine on what grounds someone in America will interfere in such an issue and think about who should rule Saudi Arabia, now or in the future. This is a Saudi matter”. Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2 and was never seen again.

The Saudi leadership initially denied that it was involved in the disappearance. But the government of Turkey later provided evidence to the U.S and other foreign governments demonstrating that Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi regime and a U.S resident had been brutally killing at the consulate.

Saudi Arabia continued to change its official story regarding the killing but pinned the blame on rogue members of the security forces. U.S Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations, had publicly criticized the Saudi crown prince and said that he should be held responsible for Khashoggi’s killing.

Corker said, “If he was before a jury, the crown prince, he would be convicted, in my opinion, in 30 minutes. I’ve never seen such compelling evidence in an intelligence briefing, never. So you cannot have a crown prince who’s 33 years old feeling that he’s able to get away with murdering a journalist inside a consulate. You cannot let that stand”. But, the U.S President Donald Trump has continued to emphasize the need for maintaining the relationship with the Saudi crown prince despite Khashoggi’s killing.