Trump: Putin ‘probably’ involved in Navalny’s death
Former President Donald Trump spoke exclusively with MediaBuzz about winning the Republican nomination, the sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and his comments on illegal immigration.
The widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has refuted a new investigatory report that said he died from arrhythmia and complications from multiple illnesses, calling the findings “a rather pathetic attempt to cover up what happened: murder.”
The statement came six months after Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in a Siberian penal colony. Russian authorities said at the time that he had complained of feeling unwell after a walk, then lost consciousness and died.
In a report published on Wednesday by Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, investigators claim that he died after suffering from a variety of ailments, including irregular heartbeat and cholecystitis (a swollen gallbladder).
“The truth is, this is not a diagnosis or a test result, it’s a mockery. This is yet another pathetic attempt to cover up what happened – murder.” Navalny wrote on his official website. “And everyone who writes these papers, who writes these false reports, is an accomplice in this murder.”
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Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a demonstration in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, in Moscow, Russia, on February 29, 2020. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
“I showed the diagnosis to doctors and they all came to the same conclusion: They opened it up, examined it and found nothing. No blood clots, no signs of a heart attack or stroke,” she added. “So they just wanted something to write: ‘irregular heartbeat.’ People don’t just die like that.”
“The chronic diseases cited by the investigators – gastroduodenitis and pancreatitis – affect one in three people in Russia. Suddenly, in an hour, you don’t die from such diseases. But even if we assume that such diseases existed, why were they not diagnosed in the many camps where Alexei was? Why was he not treated? Why was such a sick person sent to a punishment cell and kept there for months?” Navalnaya continued.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Pool Photo via AP)
“There is only one explanation for this: They killed him and now they are trying to cover their tracks as best they can,” she said.
“If Putin and his kind cronies think that we will just shrug and say: ‘Well, no,’ they are very mistaken. The lawyers will appeal all such documents. We will demand that a criminal case be opened,” Navalnaya concluded. “I demand that they hand over to us all medical documents, including the autopsy report. I also demand that they hand over all of Alexei’s personal belongings.”
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared in court via video link on Thursday, February 15, a day before he was reported to have died in a prison in northern Russia. (Russian Federal Prison Service/SOTAvision/AP)
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In February, President Biden was quoted as saying there was “no question” that Navalny’s death was “the result of what President Putin and his minions did.”
