Russia Anti-Putin Navalny Dies Suddenly In Siberian Prison
Russian correctional authorities announced on the 16th that Alexei Navalny (47), an anti-Putin politician with the most influence in Russia, Navalny dies suddenly in a Siberian prison near the Arctic Circle.
The Federal Correctional Service said in a statement after 2 p.m. on this day (8 p.m. Korean time) that Navalny felt unwell after a walk on the 16th (Friday) and lost consciousness. An ambulance arrived and resuscitated him, but he died.
There has yet to be a statement confirming his death from Navalny’s team, which had been reporting on him from outside the prison.
Navalny has been popular among Russian citizens and gained support as a corruption blogger since 2010, and ran for mayor of Moscow in the 2013 local elections held after Vladimir Putin returned from the position of prime minister to president in the 2012 presidential election.
Navalny, who was unknown, became a national figure by taking second place with 27%, and began to face various repressions by courageously criticizing the Putin regime and Putin personally.
The Putin regime put Navalny on trial for embezzlement, and Navalny did not stop criticizing him even after he was released on parole. He was sentenced to 15 days in detention for attending an unauthorized protest. He attempted to run in the 2018 presidential election to fight Putin, but was disqualified by the Election Commission. Navalny has said, “If we only have a fair media, we can defeat Putin.”
On a plane returning to Moscow after a business trip to Siberia in August 2020, Navalny was unconscious and his life was in danger. German charities and the government worked hard to get Navalny out of the Omsk hospital and transferred to Germany, where he regained consciousness within a month.
Swedish research institutes and others revealed the results of their investigation that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a Russian military neurotoxin. Navalny took the risk and returned home at the end of January 2021 and landed at Moscow Airport, but was immediately imprisoned on charges of violating parole conditions.
Navalny was then put on trial for three counts, including for adhering to extremism, and received a total of 19 years in prison. He was imprisoned in a prison complex 200km east of Moscow, but suddenly went missing in December last year, with even his acquaintances in the military unaware of his whereabouts.
A week later, Navalny announced online that he had been transferred to Karp Prison in the Yayo-Nenets Republic, 1,900 km away from Moscow and far north of the lower Arctic Circle at a latitude of more than 66 degrees. Navalny also wrote a joke earlier this year saying, “I have become Russia’s new frozen god,” but he suddenly died in prison.
This is because Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner mercenaries, who staged a one-day coup against Putin at the end of June last year and advanced 200 km away from Moscow before giving up and surrendering, died along with all 10 people in a private plane crash over northwest Russia just two months later. Remind yourself of the facts.
Putin is suspected of having murdered Boris Nemtsov, the biggest critic of the regime before Navalny, in Moscow in 2017, and is presumed to have murdered Russian spies who had taken refuge in London and Salisbury, England, using Novichok and other methods.
Putin, 71, is running in the presidential election on March 17, seeking his fifth term as president, and it is already clear that he will win. Putin, who first took office as president in December 1999, can hold the position for 12 more years starting this year by amending the constitution.
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