Alexei Navalny’s spokeswoman confirmed the death of the Kremlin opponent. His mother was told he died on Friday, February 16 at 2:17 p.m., she explained on the X platform.
“Alexei Navalny was murdered,” spokeswoman Kira Yarmysch wrote. An official at the penal colony said his body was now in the northern Siberian city of Salekhard, where ‘investigations’ were being carried out. The body must be immediately handed over to Navalny’s family, Yarmysch demanded.
Mother and lawyer arrive
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, was on her way to the prison camp with her son’s lawyer.
Navalny was sentenced to more than thirty years in prison. He was last imprisoned in the ‘Polarwolf’ penal camp near the town of Charp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in northern Russia.
“Russian lament is out of place”
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) banned criticism from the Moscow government over responses to Navalny’s death. Those who were most upset on Friday should behave the most calmly, Schallenberg said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. “Russian lamentation is not appropriate here,” he said about the Russian embassy’s protest against a comment by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.
In his immediate response to X, Van der Bellen spoke about “Vladimir Putin and his murderous regime”. The Russian embassy in Vienna responded with a letter of protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Schallenberg said he does not participate in conspiracy theories. At the same time, he made it clear: “We know that there was a poison attack on him and that he was put in the gulag.” Unlike many international politicians, Schallenberg avoided directly blaming Moscow after Navalny’s death, but did conduct an investigation. requires a full investigation into the circumstances of his death.
Demo in front of the Russian embassy in Vienna
In many European cities, including Vienna, people demonstrated in front of respective Russian embassies and called Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin a murderer. Despite arrests and pressure from authorities, public expressions of sympathy for Navalny continued in Russia. More than 110 people have been arrested across the country, according to human rights activists.
In Moscow and other cities, men in plain clothes or city cleaning staff cleared spontaneously erected memorials to the 47-year-old, who died in custody under unclear circumstances in the Arctic. They packed flowers in garbage bags and collected candles and photos. Media in many parts of Russia reported on Saturday that fresh flowers were still being laid, candles lit and pictures hung in memory of Navalny.
“Great fear of a dead person”
“How great is the fear of the power apparatus for a dead person if even laying flowers in his memory is considered a crime,” wrote Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Kremlin-critical newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Dmitri Muratov, on Telegram. Saturday .
Source: Krone
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