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CV NEWS FEED // Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died Friday in a Siberian prison north of the Arctic Circle. Navalny, 47, was widely considered to be one of the foremost critics of President Vladimir Putin.
The government body that oversees Russia’s federal prisons issued a statement claiming that Navalny had died suddenly following a walk.
“On Feb. 16, 2024, in penal colony number 3, convict Navalny A.A. felt unwell after a walk, almost immediately losing consciousness,” wrote the Federal Penitentiary Service. “The medical staff of the institution arrived immediately, and an ambulance team was called.”
The prison authority wrote that “[a]ll necessary resuscitation measures were carried out” and that Navalny’s “causes of death are being established.”
Navalny’s mother and his lawyer both said officials told them he had died as a result of “sudden death syndrome.”
According to Reuters, this is “a vague term for different cardiac syndromes that cause sudden cardiac arrest and death.”
Reuters also noted that an “unidentified source” told a Russian state-controlled media source “that Navalny died from a blood clot.”
Breitbart indicated that prison officials told Navalny’s mother Saturday that her son’s “body had already been sent to Salekhard, the city nearest to the harsh and remote prison camp.”
“Navalny’s mother and his lawyers proceeded to Salekhard, only to be told the morgue was not open for business and had not received Navalny’s body,” Breitbart went on. A “few hours after enduring that runaround, Navalny’s family and lawyers were informed his body was being held by the authorities pending a full investigation into his death,” which will not concluded until sometime next week.
Navalny’s lawyer accused officials of “driving us around in circles and covering their tracks.”
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In a video message released Monday, Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, stated that her husband was “killed by Vladimir Putin.”
“Somewhere in a Colony in the Far North, over the Polar Circle, in eternal winter, Putin has not just killed Alexei Navalny, a person, he wanted to kill our hopes together with him. Our freedom, our future,” Navalnaya continued:
The most important thing we can do for Alexei and for ourselves is continue fighting. I will keep the cause of Alexei Navalny alive, I will continue fighting for our country and I urge you to stand by my side.
To share not just the grief and endless pain that has covered us and doesn’t let go, I ask you to share the fury with me.
“All that is needed for evil to triumph is good people not acting,” she added toward the end of her message. “So we shouldn’t stay inactive.”
The anti-corruption leader was serving out a 19-year sentence at a penal colony in a remote town.
The Daily Wire reported that “Navalny had been sentenced to prison in January 2021 after returning to Moscow from Germany, where he was undergoing treatment for poisoning from a nerve agent that he blamed on the Kremlin.”
“The Kremlin has denied any responsibility for his poisoning, but United States intelligence officials have said they believe Russia was responsible,” added The Daily Wire.
Following his sentencing, Navalny remarked that he was “serving a life sentence, which is measured by the length of my life or the length of life of this regime.”
