Reports of the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny were cut from the official version, as revealed by the local independent media The Insider. The newspaper has published two copies of the document with which the Russian Investigative Committee refused to open a criminal case for the death of the opponent, and in the final version the symptoms for which, according to The Insidercould have been poisoned.
The two reports are signed by a senior official of the Investigative Committee, the head of justice Alexander Varapáyev. In the original version, Navalny was on February 16 in a courtyard of the IK-3 prison in Jarp, 1,900 kilometers northeast of Moscow, when he “felt a strong deterioration in his health, which he informed the employee on duty.” of the institution.” After being taken from the yard, “he lay down on the ground and then began to complain of a sharp pain in his abdomen, he began to have a reflex eruption of the contents of his stomach, convulsions appeared and he lost consciousness, which was immediately reported to medical workers.”
In the definitive version also published by The Insider – half declared an undesirable organization by the Russian authorities – abdominal pain, vomiting or spasms did not appear. Likewise, another of the “hundreds” of documents to which the investigative newspaper claims to have had access is an inventory of seized objects in which “solid and liquid fragments of vomit from the convicted AA Navalni” appear. However, none of this was included in the official version that attributed the death of Vladimir Putin’s great political rival to “natural causes.”
The Russian Investigative Committee announced in mid-August that Navalny’s death “was not criminal in nature, but rather a combination of illness and arrhythmia.” The dissident’s widow rejected the official version. “I know this is not true,” said Yulia Naválnaya, mother of the dissident’s two children. The opponent then published another version on her blog that coincides with the reports published by The Insider.
Navalnaya, after receiving the official report and contrasting it with her own sources, declared about the Investigative Committee’s report: “We know that Varapáyev’s resolution is a lie and hides what really happened that day. We know very well that when Alexei fell ill, he was not taken to the medical unit, but to the punishment cell. That he was dying there alone and they took him unconscious to the medical unit. “That in the last minutes before his death he complained of sharp pains in his stomach.” The widow asked on her blog: “Why is all this not included in the resolution of the Investigative Commission? Where are the images from the cameras that are everywhere in the neighborhood, including the bathrooms?”
“A poisoning”
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The Insider In his article, he includes the opinion of a doctor who revived Navalny when he was poisoned in August 2020 with a powerful chemical substance, Novichok. The opponent was then saved by the quick emergency landing of the plane in which he was traveling. “It is difficult to explain these symptoms—from the report—by any cause other than poisoning,” Alexánder Polupan tells the outlet.
Navalny was arrested in Moscow in January 2021, upon returning from his convalescence in a German clinic, where he had been transferred in a coma with permission from the Russian authorities. The Russian Government accused the opponent of having breached the conditional release regime of a previous sentence – considered illegal by the European Court of Human Rights – by having gone to the Central European country. Once in prison, the Kremlin opened several criminal cases against the dissident and his organization, which it included on the list of terrorist and extremist movements. After being transferred to several prisons, Navalny ended up in a strict regime prison in the Arctic Circle, where he died suddenly, away from his family.
The West had put on the table the possible exchange of Navalny for Russian spies imprisoned abroad. A week ago, the official magazine of the Russian intelligence service abroad, Razvedchikcontradicted Putin’s version of the negotiations for his great political rival, the man who could have greatly complicated the presidential elections in March of this year.
The Russian spy magazine revealed in an editorial that Putin guided the talks for the massive exchange of political prisoners and journalists for Russian agents that culminated on August 2, and these originally included Navalny. However, the Russian leader had stated after the death of his rival that he found out that Navalny was on the list of exchangeables days before his death.
According to Razvedchikboth the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation “were in contact with the West on the instructions of the head of state.” “The initial list presented to the Russian side was different and included odious political personalities who, for reasons beyond our control, did not live to this day, which is why the exchange process was greatly delayed,” the newspaper noted. Russian espionage.
Putin, however, stated after his proclamation as president that he knew nothing about the negotiations. “By the way, a few days before Navalni’s death, some colleagues who were not members of the presidential administration told me that there was an idea of exchanging Mr. Navalni for some people who are in prison in Western countries. You can believe me, you can not, but I said, ‘I agree.’ However, unfortunately, what happened happened,” Putin said in the first time he mentioned Navalny by name in a public intervention.
The Russian leader’s version had previously been refuted by Navalni’s team. According to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, negotiations began in 2023 and in September of that year the Russian dissident was on the list. Now, Razvédchik’s editorial and the documents of The Insider They reinforce their thesis that the Kremlin never wanted the release of its great political adversary.
