Tests show that Navalny is poisoned in prison, says his widow

The wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he had been killed by poisoning while serving a sentence in an Arctic criminal colony in 2024.

In a video shared on social media, Julia Navalna said that the analysis of smuggling of biological samples carried out by laboratories in two countries showed that her husband was “killed”.

It did not provide details of the poison that were said to have been used, on the samples or the analysis – but caused the two laboratories to publish their results.

Navalny – Anti -Corruption Campaign and the most vocal leader of the opposition of Russia – died suddenly in prison on February 16, 2024 at the age of 47.

In 2020, he was poisoned by Novichok’s nervous agent and almost died. He underwent treatment in Germany and was arrested at the airport upon his return to Russia.

During his death, he was imprisoned for three years on charges of charges and was recently transferred to a criminal colony in the Arctic Circle.

Navalny’s supporters and colleagues at his FBK Foundation (FBK) have always maintained that the Russian government has participated in his death.

Navalnaya said that after the death of her husband in February 2024, his team was able to “receive and to transfer securely” biological samples abroad and that two laboratories in different countries have concluded that it has been poisoned.

She did not share the location of the laboratories – but she suggested that they did not announce their discoveries for “political reasons”.

“They don’t want an uncomfortable truth to appear at the wrong moment,” she said.

Navalnaya also suggested that he would receive discounts when he tried to investigate her husband’s death further: “You are the wife, of course, but there is no criminal case, there are no legal grounds for submitting documents to you.”

“But I have grounds. It’s not legal, but moral grounds.”

She added that Navalny was her husband, friend and a closest man -and “a symbol of hope for a better future for our country.”

“I know he was a symbol for you too,” she said through images of the Moscow funeral of Navalny, which attracted thousands, despite warnings from the authorities not to attend.

“I will not remain silent.

On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he did not know about Navalnaya’s statements.

In the video, Navalnaya also details her husband’s last days based on what she said were indications from employees in the criminal colony that the BBC failed to check.

According to her, on the day he died, he was raised for a walk, but he felt bad. When he was taken back to his cell, “he lay down on the floor, pulled his knees up, and began to moan with pain … Then he began to vomit.”

“Alexey had convulsions … Prison security was watching (his) agony through the bars of the cell window,” she said, citing the alleged testimonies.

The ambulance was not called up to 40 minutes after Navalny became ill, his widow said, and he died shortly after. Later, prison authorities told her mother Lyudmila that her son had survived a “sudden death syndrome”. Later, state investigators said death was caused by medical condition and arrhythmia.

Navalny’s collaborators have shared an unprecedented images on social media, which is supposed to show his cell on the day he died, and the tiny courtyard for exercise where he was allowed.

Vladimir Putin, who diligently avoided name Navalny while he was alive, Briefly pointed it a month after his death Stating that a person passing was “always a sad event.”

The Russian president also said he has agreed to be a planned swap of prisoners between Navalny and some people held in Western prisons, provided that Navalny is not returning to Russia.

“But that’s life. There’s nothing to do about it,” Putin said.

Moscow is unlikely to release a more comment on Navalny’s death.

His popularity and internet reasonableness have long shook the Kremlin, while higher figures were annoyed by his investigations into a high -profile government corruption.

With the death of Navali Russia, the last opposition figure lost the last of Putin’s rule.

Many of his associates were closed or escaped from Russia. Navalnaya herself is arrested, and she and her two children live abroad.

The repression of civil society has increased even after the full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine in February 2022 and the criminal new laws leading to mass arrests are silencing any opposition.

Both in life and in death, Navalny managed to bring out huge crowds down the streets. Thousands of grieving turned out to be his funeral In Moscow in March 2024, despite the favorable fears of police repression.

Since then, no major opposition gatherings have been held in Russia.