US Edition2 Years on, Navalny’s Death Still Casts a Shadow over Russia and Wider Europe
Five European countries confirmed epibatidine poisoning in Navalny, accusing Russia of motive and opportunity while the Kremlin denies involvement.
- On Feb. 16, 2026, mourners in Moscow marked two years since Alexei Navalny's death in custody, with Lyudmila Navalnaya and Alla Abrosimova laying flowers at Borisovskoye Cemetery.
- The foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said Saturday that European lab analyses conclusively confirmed epibatidine, a neurotoxin from poison dart frogs, in Navalny's samples, and stated Russia had the means, motive, and opportunity to administer it.
- The Kremlin rejected the accusations, saying Navalny died of natural causes and calling the claims biased and unfounded, while European embassies attended amid high security and Navalny had survived a 2020 poisoning and imprisonment.
- Russia's opposition now faces division after Navalny's death at 47, with many activists fighting from exile and some sentenced in absentia as PACE launched the Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces.
- Across Russia, memorials included flowers at St Petersburg and a choir at Navalny's graveside, while Yulia Navalnaya said she was 'certain from the first day' he was poisoned.
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2 years on, Navalny’s death still casts a shadow over Russia and wider Europe
MOSCOW (AP) — Mourners gathered in Moscow Monday to mark two years since the death in custody of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, under the shadow of a Kremlin crackdown and just two days since a new analysis reinforced suspicions that he was killed by poisoning. Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence that many believed to be politically motivated. His death at the age of 47 left the Ru…
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2 years on, Navalny's death still casts a shadow over Russia and wider Europe
Mourners in Moscow have marked two years since Russian opposition leder Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison, as a new European analysis fuels claims he was killed by poisoning.
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Worldwide people remind of the Kremlin opponent Alexey Navalny. Massive criticism of the repressions in Russia becomes loud.
The Russian political activist was tortured to death on February 16, 2024, in a prison in the Arctic, according to his supporters.
In the past year Alexei Navalny's lawyers were sentenced to more than three years' imprisonment.
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