He died at the age of 47 and the news was reported by Russian news agencies. Aleksei Navalny, 47 years old, died in penal colony no. 3 of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, as reported by the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
How Navalny died
The Kremlin does not comment
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was informed of the dissident’s death in prison. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed this. The causes of death, Peskov said, “will be ascertained by doctors”. “The Federal Penitentiary Service is checking and investigating – he added – no special indication from the Kremlin is needed in this regard”. The Russian investigative commission has launched “a procedural investigation in accordance with the provisions of the law and will implement all investigative and operational measures to establish the circumstances of the accident”. According to state TV RT he died of an embolism.
“The EU holds Putin responsible”
The President of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, however, points the finger at Putin: Navalny, he said, was “brutally murdered by the Kremlin”. A clear position also came from Charles Michel, president of the European Council: “Alexei Navalny he fought for the values of freedom and democracy. For his ideals, he made the ultimate sacrifice. The EU holds the Russian regime solely responsible for this tragic death. I offer my deepest condolences to her family. And to those fighting for democracy around the world under the darkest conditions. The fighters die. But the fight for freedom never ends.” For Olaf Scholz instead, the dissident “paid for his courage with his life”.
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