“Blood clot” – Navalny: Kneissl jumps on Putin’s propaganda

“Alexei Navalny died in a correctional colony. This was reported by the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. According to a source, a blood clot has dislodged,” Kneissl wrote on Telegram.

Kneissl: ‘He received all necessary resuscitation measures’
He added: “According to the website, he felt bad after a walk and fainted. He was subsequently given all necessary resuscitation measures, but these did not yield a positive result.”

Critic: Kneissl is completely at the service of Russian propaganda
Kneissl was Austria’s Foreign Minister – nominated by the FPÖ – from 2017 until the Ibiza scandal in 2019. She recently attracted particular attention with her Russia-friendly statements. Critics see it as entirely in the service of Russian propaganda, especially as it is repeatedly shown on Russian state television.

Kneissl has now moved to Saint Petersburg
In September she announced her move to Russia. On the sidelines of the official Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, she justified her decision with her work in a think tank that the State University in St. Petersburg set up for the Austrian ex-politician last summer. Saint Petersburg is also the birthplace of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. Kneissl not only invited Putin to her wedding in 2018, but also met him in person several times.

Kneissl on Putin: “Ideal image of a perfect gentleman”
Only last December she came out in a BBC interview as a “big fan of Vladimir Putin,” praising academic freedom at St. Petersburg University and emphasizing that no one around her had yet been affected by political repression . “He (Putin, take note) is the most intelligent gentleman, with the emphasis on gentleman, and I have met a few,” Kneissl explained. She compared the Russian president to the ideal image of a “perfect gentleman” that British writer Jane Austen portrayed in her early 19th-century novel “Pride and Prejudice.”

Putin’s critics are tortured and arrested
While Kneissl describes the Kremlin leader as a “gentleman,” his critics and Navalny supporters are currently being beaten, tortured and arrested in the streets (see tweet below).

By late Friday evening, more than a hundred people had been arrested at memorial events in several Russian cities, according to the civil rights organization Ovd-Info. Arrests were reported in the capital Moscow, the Baltic Sea metropolis of Saint Petersburg and six other cities.

According to Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Jarmisch, investigating authorities told a lawyer for the opposition politician that the 47-year-old’s cause of death was still unclear and that the body required further examination. Results are therefore not expected until next week.

Navalny dead: mother and lawyer search for body
The spokeswoman called for the body to be handed over to Navalny’s family immediately. According to her, Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, visited a mortuary in the Arctic Circle city of Salekhard in vain on Saturday to receive her son’s remains.

Navalny’s ‘killers’ are trying to cover their tracks
Following the death of prominent Russian Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his supporters have accused authorities of preventing his body from being handed over to cover the tracks of his “killers”. “It is clear that the killers want to cover their tracks and therefore do not hand over his body and even hide it from his mother,” Navalny’s team said in Telegram on Saturday.