Who Was Behind the Death of Alexei Navalny?

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In summary, the article explores the circumstances surrounding the death of Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian opposition leader and critic of President Vladimir Putin. It examines various theories regarding the involvement of state actors, the motivations behind his assassination, and the implications for political dissent in Russia. The analysis highlights the potential risks faced by activists and the ongoing struggle for democracy in the country.
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Navalny's lawyer has been arrested in Moscow.
 
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Navalny was struck down with 'sudden death syndrome', his mother was told at Russian prison

KHARP, Russia, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Alexei Navalny's mother was told on Saturday that Russia's most prominent opposition leader had been struck down by "sudden death syndrome" and that his body would not be handed over to the family until an investigation was completed, his team said.

Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in Kharp, about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, where he was serving a three-decade sentence, the prison service said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/alexei-navalny-is-dead-spokeswoman-confirms-2024-02-17/

Russian prison authorities have said that Navalny felt ill after returning from his daily walk, lost consciousness, and could not be revived. They have ascribed his death to a pulmonary embolism. Anna Karetnikova, a prisoners’-rights activist and a former member of the civilian-oversight body of Russia’s prison system, has said that prison authorities routinely use embolism as a catchall term. Sergey Nemalevich, a journalist with the Russian Service of Radio Liberty, noticed that the ostensible timing of the death didn’t seem to jibe with Navalny’s recent description of his schedule in solitary confinement: he had said that his daily walk took place at six-thirty in the morning, but prison authorities claimed that, on the day of his death, he returned to his cell in the afternoon. Nemalevich suggested that Navalny was dead long before an ambulance—which authorities said took a mere seven minutes to travel twenty-two miles to the prison—was called to declare him dead.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/post...lexey-navalny-putins-most-formidable-opponent

Mourners shout in defiance at funeral for Alexei Navalny​

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68435167

https://apnews.com/article/russia-alexei-navalny-funeral-9263c4d0688b883fa9f853f5d0310e45

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/alexei-navalnys-funeral-draws-heavy-police-presence-f402e16a

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1235121398/kremlin-russia-navalny-funeral

https://time.com/6836253/putin-navalny-funeral/

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...ay-moscow-despite-pressure/story?id=107684524


Edit/update - apparently hearse drivers were threatened anonymously not to take Navalny's body anywhere.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/europe/russia-navalny-funeral-hearse-intl/index.html
Attempts to hire a hearse to take the body of Alexey Navalny body to his funeral have been thwarted by unknown people, the Russian opposition leader’s team said Thursday.

Spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh claimed that drivers had been “called by unknown people and threatened not to take Alexey’s body anywhere.”

Yarmysh said she had been told that “no hearse agrees to take the body there.”

Navalny’s team also encountered difficulty hiring a venue for his funeral, which will be held at 2 p.m. local time (6 a.m. ET) Friday at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God in Moscow’s Maryino district, where the opposition leader lived. He will then be buried at Borisov Cemetery.
 
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Sagittarius A-Star said:
died of natural causes.
Well, after all that he got it's indeed natural to die from trivial matters. Even by sneezing.
That's still ... the same matter.
 
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phinds said:
Sad, but inevitable, given Putin's inclinations. Preliminary reports from Russia are calling it natural causes. Right.
Yep, his carcass likely weighed heavier with 7.62x39 bullets than his whole body weighed originally....so he...'jes nat'ral like...died deader than mutton. Putin's fiends likely had to carry his destroyed body away with an industrial forklift..
 
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Hill said:
Just some help with the use of foreign language:
Большевики - plural, Большевик - singular,
Новичо́к - Новичёк.
assume "Большевик" = bolshevik
 
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I thought political threads were banned. Silly me.
 
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Thread closed for Mentor review...
 
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Hornbein said:
I thought political threads were banned.
Only if we know about them. Unreported stuff can hang around for a long time, especially outside the technical forums.
 
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Now that this thread has been reported, it will remain closed.
 

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