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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said new evidence from two laboratory tests show that her husband was poisoned when he died at a penal colony in 2024—years after surviving a previous poisoning attempt from Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok.
The Russian opposition leader died at a penal colony in 2024.
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Navalnaya said she obtained biological samples from Navalny after his death at the “Polar Wolf” penal colony in Russia’s Arctic Circle and was able to “securely transfer” them abroad.
“Two laboratories in two different countries, working independently of each other, concluded that Alexei had been poisoned,” Navalnaya said in a statement posted on social media, noting that she received the results a few months ago.
Navalnaya did not identify which poison was allegedly used on her husband, and instead demanded the laboratories publish the results, adding “these results are of public importance and must be published.”
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