Russian politicians commented on Navalny’s death – Kommersant

Russian politicians commented on reports of the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in IK-3 in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Today, February 16, the regional Federal Penitentiary Service reported that Alexei Navalny became ill during a walk, and doctors pronounced him dead. The Federation Council called the death of the oppositionist an “accident,” while the State Duma blamed Washington and Brussels for his death.

Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov on the air of a radio station “Moscow speaks” said that Russia had “no sense” in harming the health of Alexei Navalny. “The man was serving a sentence that still had to serve for several years. I think it’s an accident, it happens,” he said.

Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin expressed in his Telegram channel a similar point of view, saying that the death of the oppositionist “benefits no one.” According to him, “Washington and Brussels are to blame” for the death of Alexei Navalny. “All of them, their names are well known: from the NATO Secretary General and the US leadership to Scholz, Sunak and Zelensky, are the perpetrators of Navalny’s death,” wrote Vyacheslav Volodin.

Chairman of the party “A Just Russia – For Truth” Sergei Mironov wrote in his Telegram channelthat the death of Alexei Navalny “benefits many of Russia’s enemies, including those who tried to poison him earlier.” “The investigation must give a clear answer to the question of what happened to Navalny. “Everyone else must unite to repel the powerful information attack that the West will now unleash on Russia and its leader,” he said.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the “instant reaction” of Western countries “self-exposing.” “There is no forensic examination yet, but the West’s conclusions are already ready,” she wrote in her Telegram channel.

The FSIN department for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported on February 16 that Navalny became ill during a walk and lost consciousness. Doctors pronounced him dead. The Public Monitoring Commission for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that there were no health complaints from Navalny. The press service of the Vladimir Regional Court said that at the hearing on February 15, Alexey Navalny participated via video link and felt fine, did not complain about his health.

The main thing that is known about the death of the oppositionist is read in publications “Ъ”.

Polina Motyzlevskaya