US EditionKremlin Rejects European Claim Navalny Died of Poisoning
Five European countries attribute Navalny's death to epibatidine poisoning, while the Kremlin calls the claim baseless and denies involvement.
- At a daily briefing, Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, rejected a joint European assessment that Alexei Navalny died from poisoning, calling the claims biased and baseless.
- Britain, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands said they believed Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine based on laboratory analysis of samples taken from his body on Saturday.
- Dozens visited Alexei Navalny's grave at Borisovskoye Cemetery on Monday, including foreign diplomats, while Navalny's mother Lyudmila Navalnaya said, `This confirms what we knew from the very beginning. We knew that our son did not simply die in prison, he was murdered.`
- Russian authorities had earlier designated Navalny's group as "extremist", and Moscow says he fell ill and collapsed during a walk in the Kharp prison yard.
- The European governments issued a joint statement Saturday saying they believed Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine, ahead of the second anniversary of his death, while U.S. intelligence previously assessed Putin probably did not order it, and Marco Rubio did not question the European assessment.
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The Kremlin rejected the statement on the death of Alexey Navalny. The allegations were "unfounded", it was said from Moscow.
Russia considers statements by Western governments regarding the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny biased and unfounded, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Britain and four other European countries (France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands) claim that Navalny was poisoned in a Siberian prison with a rare poison dart frog.
Vladimir Putin's main opponent was "poisoned" in prison by the Russian regime, according to an investigation conducted by five countries, including France.
Two years after the death of the Kremlin critic, numerous people visit his grave in Moscow. Only the Russian state had the opportunity to poison Navalny, Federal Foreign Minister Wadephul said.
Kremlin Rejects European Assessment Navalny Died of Poisoning
The Kremlin said Monday that it "strongly rejected" an assessment by five European countries that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from poisoning two years ago, as his supporters marked the anniversary of his death in prison. Navalny, a charismatic anti-corruption campaigner who rallied hundreds of thousands to the streets in protest at the Russian leadership, was Russian President Vladimir Putin's fiercest domestic opponent for yea…
The mother of Alexei Navalny claimed "justice" for her son on Monday, the second anniversary of her death. According to several European countries, the Russian opponent was "poisoned" with a "rare toxin". "We do not accept such accusations", Moscow reacted. - Intoxication of Navalny: his mother claims "justice", the Kremlin refutes the accusations (International).
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