Widow of Alexei Navalny claims tests show her husband was poisoned before his death

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18 Sep 2025 • 2:41 AM MYT
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  • Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny, stated that two independent laboratories concluded her husband was poisoned before his death.
  • Alexei Navalny, a prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin, died in a Russian penal colony in February 2024 while serving a 19-year sentence.
  • Ms Navalnaya claims the laboratories, located in different countries, reached the same conclusion but have withheld their findings due to 'political considerations'.
  • She is now demanding that these laboratories publish their results, asserting that her husband was killed.
  • Russian officials previously attributed Navalny's death to 'a dozen different diseases' and arrhythmia, a claim Ms Navalnaya disputes, having consistently blamed the Russian president.

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