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☆ Navalny told his lawyer he thought he was being poisoned in prison months before his sudden death
  + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Alexey Navalny told his lawyer he suspected he was being poisoned in prison months before his death. Western leaders, including President Joe Biden, have accused Putin of being behind Navalny's death. AdvertisementAlexey Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader, said he thought he was being poisoned months before he died suddenly in prison, his former lawyer has claimed. When Russia's Federal Prison Service announced Navalny's death, it said that he felt unwell after taking a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness. AdvertisementHe narrowly escaped death after being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in 2020, which he blamed on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Persons: Alexey Navalny, Joe Biden, Putin, —, Olga Mikhailova, Vladimir Putin's, Mikhailova, Meduza, Navalny, Russia's spymaster, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Service, Russia's Federal Prison Service, Kremlin Locations: Russian, Russia's, Russia
☆ Putin is flexing his power with the deaths of his opponents — but he may also be highlighting the weakness of his regime
  + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
"That's an extraordinary power, and Putin did it effectively, making sure it wound up in the news." AdvertisementThe display of power by the Russian state, while jarring, is not out of the norm for Putin's regime, which has been accused of assassinations abroad for decades. Both Navalny's and the pilot's deaths fit Putin's playbook to a T, exemplifying the lengths to which the Russian regime will go to maintain the illusion of total power, Schmidt said. AdvertisementFor years, Navalny represented the most formidable threat to Putin's regime, criticizing corruption in the Russian state and organizing powerful anti-Kremlin protests. AdvertisementNavalny's death shows Putin is easily threatenedThe two experts said Navalny's death, rather than simply displaying Putin's power, actually highlighted his weakness.
Persons: —, Vladimir Putin, Alexey Navalny, Putin's, Putin, Matthew Schmidt, Schmidt, Navalny, Simon Miles, Miles, Robert English Organizations: Service, Business, The University of New Haven, US Army's School, Advanced Military Studies, Russia's Federal Prison Service, Kremlin, Duke University's Sanford School of Public, Soviet Union, University of Southern Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Spain, Russia, Avdiivka, Russia's, Soviet, Moscow, University of Southern California, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe
☆ Inside the deadly Russian Arctic prison where Alexey Navalny spent his last days
  + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Deceased Russian dissident Alexey Navalny spent his final days in one of Russia's harshest prisons. Located near the Arctic Circle, the IK-3 prison colony is infamous for its terrible conditions. AdvertisementNavalny might have joked about prison life, but the reality of life behind bars was brutalA satellite image of the IK-3 prison colony where Navalny was detained. While Navalny did crack a couple of dark jokes about prison life, inmates in Russia's penal colonies often have to contend with brutal living conditions. Khulilidze told Life that his beating lasted about half an hour and he wasn't given any medical assistance after that.
Persons: Alexey Navalny, —, Navalny, Igor Kalyapin, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Vera Savina, Santa, I'm, Tatiana Stanovaya, Stanovaya, Meduza, Antonina Favorskaya, Mikho, Khulilidze, It's, Joe Biden, Jens Stoltenberg, Biden Organizations: IK, Service, Moscow Times, Getty, Prison Service, Maxar Technologies, Reuters, US State Department, State Department, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, BBC, Russia's Federal Prison Service, NATO Locations: Moscow, AFP, Russia, Santa Claus, IK, Russian, Russia's
☆ Everyone expected Putin to kill Navalny in prison, and here we are
  + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Alexey Navalny lost consciousness after taking a walk and died, per Russia's Federal Prison Service. They have a track record of killing and ordering the killing of political opponents, they said. At least, that is what prison officials said on Friday, announcing the death of Russia's main opposition politician. Maxim Alyukov, a political sociologist at King's College London with a focus on Russia, said the death was consistent with a "political killing." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
Persons: Alexey Navalny, Putin, —, Navalny, Maxim Alyukov Organizations: Prison Service, Kremlin, Service, Western, King's College London, Business Locations: Russia
☆ Jailed Navalny vows to keep resisting the Kremlin as campaign to free him launches
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday used the second anniversary of his incarceration to reinforce his promise to keep opposing the Kremlin, as his family and allies launched a campaign to free him. I'm not going to surrender my country to them, and I believe that the darkness will eventually fade away." And now they're tormenting him and depriving him of any connection with the outside world in order to silence him," said Navalnaya. Russia's federal prison service, FSIN, has defended Navalny's conditions in the past, while the authorities say his incarceration is legally sound. The campaign to secure his release is designed to marshal support in Russia, and to publicise his fate and seek financial support abroad.
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