Alexei Navalny’s widow says lab reports show her husband was poisoned
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The widow of Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that two independent labs have found that her husband was poisoned shortly before his death in a Russian prison.
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The widow of Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that two independent labs have found that her husband was poisoned shortly before his death in a Russian prison.
By Anna Chernova, Sebastian Shukla and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said.
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, the longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who suddenly died in prison last year, said Wednesday that two independent labs found that her husband was poisoned.
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died in the Arctic penal colony in 2024.
Tests by two foreign laboratories show that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned before his death in an Arctic penal colony last year, his wife said Wednesday
