No additional reaction from Putin regarding Navalny's death is expected
It is not worth waiting for any additional reaction from Putin regarding the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Russian dictator’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said, the BBC reported.
"I have nothing to add to what has been said on this subject," he claimed.
Putin had said nothing about Navalny's death, claimed Peskov, after journalists had asked him some clarifying questions.
An investigation into Navalny's death is ongoing and "all necessary actions are being taken in this regard," the dictator's spokesman added.
He also condemned the speeches of Western politicians.
"In conditions where there is no information, to make such, let's say, frankly rude statements, we believe, is absolutely impermissible," he said.
Russian authorities announced the death of 47-year-old opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Feb. 16. Since the end of 2023, he had been serving his sentence in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Far North.
Navalny's team confirmed his death the next day.
The politician spent the last three years in prison. He was arrested immediately after returning to Russia from Germany in January 2021, where he was treated after being poisoned by Novichok in the fall of 2020. According to an investigation by The Insider, Bellingcat, and CNN with the participation of Der Spiegel, a special unit of the FSB’s Criminal Investigation Department played a key role in Navalny’s poisoning.
In February 2021, a Russian court sentenced Navalny to 3.5 years in prison in the so-called Yves Rocher case. Navalny was sentenced to another 9 years in prison in a case of fraud and contempt of court in March 2022. Last August he was sentenced to 19 years in a special regime colony under six articles on “extremism”.
Navalny was transferred to a colony in the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, above the Arctic Circle in December 2023. It is considered a colony “for particularly dangerous repeat offenders” and is characterized by extremely harsh prison conditions.
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