Yulia Navalnaya does not believe official reports about her husband’s death – Kommersant

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said she did not know whether reports of her husband’s death could be trusted. Navalny’s parents neither confirmed nor denied information about the oppositionist’s death.

“I don’t know whether to believe or not this terrible news that we only receive from Russian government sources. For many years we cannot trust Putin and the Putin government,” Ms. Navalnaya said at the 60th Munich Conference.

According to her, responsibility for the possible death of Alexei Navalny lies with the Russian authorities. Yulia Navalnaya added that they will be punished.

Navalny’s mother Lyudmila wrote on Facebook (owned by Meta, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) that she did not want to hear any condolences. Father of the oppositionist Anatoly to the agency’s question Regnum about Navalny’s death he said: “It’s already a fact, whatever.” Later, the press secretary of Alexei Navalny, Kira Yarmysh (announced by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent), denied reports that his parents confirmed the death of the oppositionist.

Earlier today, February 16, the department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reportedthat Alexei 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 main thing that is known about the death of the oppositionist is read in publications “Ъ”.