– Putin did it because he couldn’t break him, Navalnaya said when she attended the EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Monday. Navalnaya says that Russian authorities are hiding the body of the man. – The reason is that they have poisoned him with the nerve agent Novitsjok and are waiting to release the body until the poison is out of his body, she says. The worst nerve agent Novichok has been called the worst nerve agent in the world, and was used, among other things, to poison Navalny in 2020 and the Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in the UK in 2018. Both survived. The Kremlin is to blame for being behind the poisoning six years ago. This is probably the last photo taken of Alexei Navalny. The Russian opposition leader participated digitally in a court hearing on Thursday. The next day he died. Photo: AP Will continue his work Navalnaya says she will continue with the work the man has done, and asks the Russian people to stand up against Putin’s regime. – Don’t give up, says Navalnaja in a video published on X måndag. Facts about Aleksej Navalny Russian regime critic and blogger (b. 1976) with millions of followers on Twitter and YouTube. Trained as a lawyer. Married and father of two. In 2007, started an anti-corruption campaign by buying into state-controlled companies in order to be able to ask critical questions at the general meetings. Has organized a number of demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin. Excluded from the liberal party Jabloko in 2008, where he had been active since 2000, for damaging the party with his nationalist tendencies. Leader of the small Partija Progressa – the Progress Party – since its creation in 2013. Received 27 percent of the vote in the mayoral election in Moscow in September 2013. Has been arrested and convicted of embezzlement and money laundering, charges he himself claims were politically motivated. He has also been arrested and convicted for taking part in illegal demonstrations several times. Wanted to stand as a presidential candidate and challenge Putin in the 2018 election, but the candidacy was not approved. On 20 August 2020, he became acutely ill on a passenger plane en route from Siberia to Moscow. Two days later he was evacuated to Berlin after strong Western pressure. Tests have shown that he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. On 17 January 2021, Navalny was arrested when he returned to Russia. He was sentenced in February 2021 to serve 2.5 years in a labor camp for breaching the duty to report following a conditional sentence from 2014. The sentence was based on a fraud case that Navalny rejects as forgery. In the spring of 2021, he led a hunger strike lasting over three weeks with demands for better health care. The strike was ended at the request of the doctors and after large demonstrations of support in Russia. On 26 April 2021, a court in Moscow decided that Navalny’s foundation had to stop all activities while they waited for a legal decision on whether the foundation was extremist. On 30 April 2021, the Navalny Foundation appeared on the extremist list of Russia’s financial monitoring service Rosfinmonitoring. On 16 February 2024, the prison authorities in the Yamal-Nenets region, where Navalny is imprisoned, announced that he had died. They state that he lost consciousness after a walk and died. (Source: NTB, news) Russian authorities said earlier on Monday that the West’s reaction to Navalny’s death is unacceptable. A spokesperson also said that the investigation will continue in line with Russian law, but that they do not have any clear results yet. When asked when the body will be handed over to the family, they reply that this is not a matter for the Kremlin. Alexei Navalny in court in Moscow in September 2018. Photo: Pavel Golovkin / AP Unknown cause of death The death was announced on Friday. Then the prison authorities in Yamal-Nenets, where Navalny was imprisoned, announced that the well-known opposition politician had lost his life during a walk. Russian authorities said on Friday that they have no information on the cause of death, but that the death is being investigated by the prison authorities.
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