Navalny dead
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https://www.npr.org/2024/02/24/1233716587/alexei-navalny-body-russia-opposition-leader
The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, a top aide to Navalny said Saturday on his social media account.
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Navalny’s mother played it smart. She used a combination of existing laws regarding deceased persons and Orthodox Church traditions and practices to argue her case with the authorities. She was also not intimidated and went public. I suspect it was becoming too embarrassing for some at the top to manage.
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Regardless of whether it’s hearsay, the plot continues to thicken.
“In early February, [President Vladimir] Putin was given an offer to swap the FSB killer Vadim Krasikov, who is serving a prison term for murder in Berlin, for two American citizens and Alexei Navalny,” Maria Pevchikh, who chairs Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, said in a video statement.
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Kyiv Post reports the same. Since the quoted source is the Head of Ukrainian Intelligence, I wouldn’t write it off although I don’t know how Ukraine benefits from making it public. The statement was also spoken in connection to another possible Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge.
In any case Navalny’s body and mind had been subject to ongoing abuse throughout his incarceration these past few years. A blood clot may very well have been the result of his prison living conditions and at the hands of his gaolers. I also doubt the efficacy of the routine prison medical attention he may or may not have been afforded during that time. In the end saying it was natural causes is probably moot.
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President Trump, when asked ifif he blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
“I don’t know, but perhaps, I mean possibly, I could say probably. I don’t know,” Trump told Fox News host Howard Kurtz. “He’s a young man, so statistically he’d be alive for a long time. If you go by the insurance numbers, he’d be alive for another 40 years. So something happened that was unusual.”
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@Horace said in Navalny dead:
It's reasonable to not know whether Putin had Navalny murdered.
It’s reassuring to finally find something that Trump doesn’t know more about than anybody else
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Intel suggests that Putin may not have ordered Navalny’s murder:
In my mind whether or not Putin ordered him whacked is moot. Navalny died while in state custody. Putin owns that fact.
