News Who Was Behind the Death of Alexei Navalny?

[Vanadium 50]

I don't read Russian.

I admit that Putin has reason to murder him. I admit that he is a bad, bad person who has done many bad things. I am asking if there is evidence that he has done this particular bad thing.

 

[PeroK]

Putin missed a trick here. He should have planted a copy of the Quran in Navalny's cell and got the IDF to assassinate him. Then he would have been in the clear.

 

[Hill]

Putin is an old Большевики and probably did what they always did: let the Russian winter and the ГУЛаг do the job. I assume that Новичо́к ($LD_{50}=1\,mg$) has set the stage for them to work.

Just some help with the use of foreign language:
Большевики - plural, Большевик - singular,
Новичо́к - Новичёк.

 

[pinball1970]

I don't read Russian.

I admit that Putin has reason to murder him. I admit that he is a bad, bad person who has done many bad things. I am asking if there is evidence that he has done this particular bad thing.

If there is evidence I don't think it will be available. If everything I read on wiki regarding the last couple of years of his life is close to accurate, then he could have actually died following a walk in that place. I made a flippant comment about that but it was intended as sarcasm, as people as a rule do not die at 47 from walking.
However, following his poisoning, incarceration, solitary confinement, denied medical attention, deprived of sleep over long periods, added time to sentence adding to his stress, he could have just died after three years of it.

 

[fresh_42]

And now they are officially after his brother. Kin liability is typical for dictatorships.

 

[fresh_42]

Navalny's lawyer has been arrested in Moscow.

 

[Astronuc]

Navalny was struck down with 'sudden death syndrome', his mother was told at Russian prison

KHARP, Russia, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Alexei Navalny's mother was told on Saturday that Russia's most prominent opposition leader had been struck down by "sudden death syndrome" and that his body would not be handed over to the family until an investigation was completed, his team said.

Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in Kharp, about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, where he was serving a three-decade sentence, the prison service said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/alexei-navalny-is-dead-spokeswoman-confirms-2024-02-17/

Russian prison authorities have said that Navalny felt ill after returning from his daily walk, lost consciousness, and could not be revived. They have ascribed his death to a pulmonary embolism. Anna Karetnikova, a prisoners’-rights activist and a former member of the civilian-oversight body of Russia’s prison system, has said that prison authorities routinely use embolism as a catchall term. Sergey Nemalevich, a journalist with the Russian Service of Radio Liberty, noticed that the ostensible timing of the death didn’t seem to jibe with Navalny’s recent description of his schedule in solitary confinement: he had said that his daily walk took place at six-thirty in the morning, but prison authorities claimed that, on the day of his death, he returned to his cell in the afternoon. Nemalevich suggested that Navalny was dead long before an ambulance—which authorities said took a mere seven minutes to travel twenty-two miles to the prison—was called to declare him dead.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/post...lexey-navalny-putins-most-formidable-opponent

Mourners shout in defiance at funeral for Alexei Navalny​

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68435167

https://apnews.com/article/russia-alexei-navalny-funeral-9263c4d0688b883fa9f853f5d0310e45

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/alexei-navalnys-funeral-draws-heavy-police-presence-f402e16a

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1235121398/kremlin-russia-navalny-funeral

https://time.com/6836253/putin-navalny-funeral/

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...ay-moscow-despite-pressure/story?id=107684524


Edit/update - apparently hearse drivers were threatened anonymously not to take Navalny's body anywhere.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/europe/russia-navalny-funeral-hearse-intl/index.html

Attempts to hire a hearse to take the body of Alexey Navalny body to his funeral have been thwarted by unknown people, the Russian opposition leader’s team said Thursday.

Spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh claimed that drivers had been “called by unknown people and threatened not to take Alexey’s body anywhere.”

Yarmysh said she had been told that “no hearse agrees to take the body there.”

Navalny’s team also encountered difficulty hiring a venue for his funeral, which will be held at 2 p.m. local time (6 a.m. ET) Friday at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God in Moscow’s Maryino district, where the opposition leader lived. He will then be buried at Borisov Cemetery.

 

[Sagittarius A-Star]

Navalny's team says death certificate says he died of natural causes.

Source:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...icate-says-he-died-natural-causes-2024-02-22/

 

[Rive]

died of natural causes.

Well, after all that he got it's indeed natural to die from trivial matters. Even by sneezing.
That's still ... the same matter.

 

[Will Smith]

Sad, but inevitable, given Putin's inclinations. Preliminary reports from Russia are calling it natural causes. Right.

Yep, his carcass likely weighed heavier with 7.62x39 bullets than his whole body weighed originally....so he...'jes nat'ral like...died deader than mutton. Putin's fiends likely had to carry his destroyed body away with an industrial forklift..

 

[Will Smith]

Just some help with the use of foreign language:
Большевики - plural, Большевик - singular,
Новичо́к - Новичёк.

assume "Большевик" = bolshevik

 

[Hornbein]

I thought political threads were banned. Silly me.

 

[berkeman]

Thread closed for Mentor review...

 

[Nugatory]

I thought political threads were banned.

Only if we know about them. Unreported stuff can hang around for a long time, especially outside the technical forums.

 

[berkeman]

Now that this thread has been reported, it will remain closed.