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Pressure on social media companies dates back to 2015, when a law came into force obliging them to store the personal data of Russian users on Russian territory and giving the government the power to fine them, or close them down, for not doing so. None of the Western companies have complied, which led to the closure of LinkedIn in 2016. Google, Meta and Twitter have collectively been fined more than $600,000 since the start of 2020.

It was in 2016 that requests from the Russian government to Google to remove videos from YouTube and to block certain search results began to rapidly increase. The company's transparency reports show that over the last 10 years it has received more such requests from Russia than the rest of the world combined - Google says a third of them relate to "national security".

Like the other Western companies, Google complies with some Russian requests but not with others.

Efforts to control the spread of undesirable information on social media accelerated further in early 2021, after the return of Alexei Navalny to Russia from hospital in Germany, where he had been treated for poisoning with the chemical weapon Novichok.

Navalny was immediately arrested, leading to unsanctioned protests in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities, which supporters widely advertised on social media.

This prompted angry complaints from Roskomnadzor. The posts were quickly removed from the third most popular social network in Russia, VKontakte (or VK.com), owned at that point by oligarch Alisher Usmanov, the former Arsenal football club shareholder.

But Western social networks were less accommodating, so Roskomnadzor started taking them to court and fining them.

Its next step, in March, was to slow down traffic on Twitter, for its refusal to delete these and other posts. Pictures and videos, in particular, became slower to load.

And later in the year it persuaded Google and Apple to remove from their stores a tactical voting app, designed to help Navalny sympathisers unite behind a single candidate in local elections, thereby maximising the chance of defeating the candidate of the ruling United Russia party.

The head of Navalny's team, Ivan Zhdanov, denounced the companies for what he described as "a shameful act of political censorship".

He later tweeted part of a letter from Apple, which pointed out that prosecutors had said the app was enabling illegal "interference in elections" and that media regulator Roskomnadzor had warned the company that it was promoting an "extremist organisation"

— How Russia tries to censor Western social media

#andrei zakharov #ksenia churmanova #internet #social media #censorship #politics #russian politics #russia #vladimir putin #alexei navalny #ivan zhdanov #linkedin #google #meta #twitter #youtube #vkontakte #apple #roskomnadzor

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deborahdeshoftim5779 · 1 year

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Этот Оскар не только Алексею Навальному. Не только родным и коллегам, создателям фильма. Это Оскар всем, кто его поддерживает. Вы лучшие! This Oscar is not only for Alexei Navalny. Not only relatives and colleagues, the creators of the film. This is an Oscar to everyone who supports him. You are the best!

Russian lawyer Ivan Zhdanov’s response to the ‘Navalny’ documentary winning an Oscar. This is a victory for Alexei Navalny, for the truth, for the rule of law-- and it’s a clear defeat for Putin, who hoped that he could make everyone forget Navalny through his war.

#ivan zhdanov #navalny #oscars #hollywood #alexei navalny #free navalny #russian dissident

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Just saw a vídeo about Viktor Mikhailovich Zhdanov, if anyone was wondering what Ukraine brings to the world, smallpox eradication is one. Thought this might cheer you up against twitter tankies

Yes! Also:

Ivan Puluj - developed use of x-rays for medical imaging

Mykola Leontovych - created music for Carol of the bells (which is based on a Ukrainian folk song Shchedryk)

Serhii Koroliov - rocket engineer and spacecraft designer, directly involved in the launching of dogs and the first human into space. And he did this from a russian concentration camp

Ihor Sikorskyy - aircraft engineer who worked in USA

Tanu Muino - directed music videos for world famous artists (including lil nas x who posted an anti-ukrainian joke recently. Wasn’t a funny joke)

Andy Warhol - pop art paintings

Waldemar Haffkine - created vaccines against plague and cholera

And many many others

#fuck twitter tankies #famous ukrainians #answered ask #ukraine

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mariacallous · 3 months

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Across Russia and abroad, citizens have been lining up to add their signatures in support of the presidential candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin, a former State Duma deputy and a vocal opponent of the war in Ukraine. To join the race officially, Nadezhdin must collect 100,000 signatures by the end of January. His campaign website states that he’s collected tens of thousands of signatures, despite having had just 13,000 less than a week earlier. Numerous Russian opposition politicians have voiced support for Nadezhdin’s candidacy. So, who’s endorsed the ex-lawmaker that Russian Telegram channels are calling the “anti-war candidate,” and how is Nadezhdin’s signature drive going?

Update: As of the morning of January 23, Boris Nadezhdin has gathered more than the 100,000 signatures he needs to register his candidacy, according to his website. On Telegram, however, he wrote that the signatures “are not perfect” and that his campaign will need “105,000 flawless signatures” to join the election.

On January 20 and 21, long lines began forming outside the campaign offices of Boris Nadezhdin, a former Russian State Duma deputy who hopes to join the country’s presidential race in March 2024. Supporters arrived and waited to add their signatures supporting Nadezhdin’s candidacy. In cities across the country, there have been reports of both the lines themselves and various attempts to prevent the campaign from gathering the needed signatures.

On January 21, Nadezhdin’s campaign offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg announced they’d received the maximum number of signatures allowed from each city and were no longer accepting new endorsements here. On January 22, the campaign launched an initiative targeting the rest of the country, calling on supporters to share information about the number of signatures still needed in various regions.

Nadezhdin needs a total of 100,000 signatures in order for Russia’s Central Election (CEC) Commission to register his candidacy, but no more than 2,500 of the signatures can come from any single region.

On December 28, 2023, the CEC permitted Nadezhdin to begin gathering signatures for his candidacy. By January 16, according to the counter on the politician’s website, his supporters had collected nearly 13,000. Two days later, the number surpassed 25,000, and after several well-known opposition politicians endorsed Nadezhdin, the number began to rise even faster. At the time of this writing, the campaign has collected 56,078 of the signatures it needs, according to its site.

Which opposition figures have endorsed Nadezhdin?

One of the first reports on the lines forming at Nadezhdin’s headquarters came from exiled activist Maxim Katz, who shared a video about the “potential hidden in Russian society”:

Nadezhdin’s prospects for joining the race, of course, are still in doubt. Whether the campaign will get the signatures, whether [the CEC] will register his candidacy based on those signatures — all of that is a black box over which we don’t have much power. And whatever the outcome is, it’s not worth getting upset over. But there is one thing we know right now: conversations about civic apathy in Russia are very far from reality. What we have is not civic apathy but a civic famine — an enormous hidden potential.

Katz also pointed out that Nadezhdin doesn’t yet have the signatures he needs, especially in the country’s more remote regions. He called on Russians to go to the former lawmaker’s offices and add theirs.

On January 20, Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, shared the addresses of several of Nadezhdin’s campaign headquarters on 𝕏. The following day, he posted a video on YouTube in support of Nadezhdin’s campaign, though he added that the Kremlin will most likely not let Nadezhdin join the race:

As there aren’t currently many safe ways to protest, why not take advantage of this method [of protesting] and leave your signature in support of Nadezhdin? Sure, Nadezhdin is far from my dream candidate. My candidate is Navalny. Nadezhdin is not even [exiled Belarusian former presidential candidate Sviatlana] Tsikhanouskaya, who represented the people. He’s a politician with a long and ambiguous history, but as for leaving a signature for him, why not? To provide a signature is to give a candidate the right to take part in an election.

Other opposition figures who have expressed support for Nadezhdin’s candidacy include former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, Navalny ally Georgy Alburov, political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann, and former Echo of Moscow editor-in-chief Alexey Venediktov, as well as journalist Ekaterina Duntsova, who previously hoped to take part in the 2024 election as an anti-war candidate herself but was barred from running by the CEC over alleged paperwork errors. Duntsova wrote on Telegram:

Friends, you’ve all seen how many people are lining up in front of Nadezhdin’s campaign offices. All of these people feel the same way we do: they want there to be a different candidate on the ballot. A candidate who would change the current destructive course, and a candidate who would represent us all.

According to Nadezhdin’s campaign office in the town of Yaroslavl, one of the signatures in support of his candidacy came from Vladislav Davankov, a candidate representing the New People Party and one of Nadezhdin’s would-be opponents in the election.

Nadezhdin told the Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit that he didn’t expect to receive such widespread support. He said he believes the sudden spike in the number of people signing for his candidacy is the result of a “demand for peace and change” in Russian society:

At the very beginning of the campaign, in October, nobody believed we’d be able to hold a party congress and nominate a candidate. When the congress was held, no one believed the CEC would let us collect signatures and open a [campaign] account. When they let us open an account at the New Year, nobody believed that we’d be able to open offices all over Russia and collect donations over the holidays. The realization that we might succeed came around January 10. And the confidence came last weekend.

Who is Boris Nadezhdin? And will he actually be allowed to join the race?

The Civic Initiative Party nominated Boris Nadezhdin to run in Russia’s upcoming presidential election. The war critic’s political career began in the early 1990s when he was elected to the city council of Dolgoprudny, a town in the Moscow region. In 1997–1998, he served as an assistant to then-Prime Minister Sergey Kiriyenko.

In 1999, as a member of the Union of Right Forces Party, Nadezhdin was elected by party list to the Russian State Duma, where he became the deputy leader of the party’s faction until 2003. Since then, he hasn’t served in the federal parliament or any regional legislatures, though he has competed in multiple elections. In 2019, Nadezhdin joined the council of deputies for the Dolgoprudny urban district. In recent years, he has represented the parties A Just Russia and Civic Initiative in elections, though he was barred from running for governor of the Moscow region in 2023.

Nadezhdin’s announcement that he intends to run for president was immediately followed by media speculation that his candidacy had been coordinated with the Kremlin, though he denies these rumors. An acquaintance of the aspiring candidate told Meduza that the Putin administration did make such an offer but “with no clear guarantees of being nominated.”

Nadezhdin’s campaign site calls him a “principled opponent of the policies of the current president.” “Putin sees the world from the past, and that’s where he’s dragging Russia. Russia needs a future — a future as a country that free and educated people will look up to and want to return or move to,” reads his political platform.

Nadezhdin’s position on the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is one of the key points of his campaign. In his platform, he says Vladimir Putin “made a fatal mistake by starting the special military operation.” It continues: “Not a single one of the goals of the SVO has been fulfilled. And they’re unlikely to be fulfilled without enormous damage to Russia’s economy and an irreparable demographic blow to the country.” He goes on to argue that Russia should end the war and “start peace negotiations with Ukraine and the West.”

Political analyst Fedor Krasheninnikov told Meduza that he believes Russia’s Central Election Commission won’t likely approve Nadezhdin’s candidacy. “It seems to me that the public is getting excited and repeating the same mistake from Duntsova’s campaign: assuming it can impose its own strategy and its favored candidate on the Kremlin,” he said:

Nadezhdin wasn’t immediately axed because he seemed utterly hopeless. Now, with all the fuss around him involving figures detested by the Kremlin, I see no reason they would register him. I’m about 85 percent certain that they’ll take him out [of the race] based on the signatures, and that will be the end of it — no matter how many signatures there are or how high-quality they are.

A source close to the Kremlin told Meduza that there will not be any anti-war candidates on the presidential ballot “in any scenario.” The person said the Putin administration doesn’t foresee the situation having any serious consequences, such as street protests.

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Aleksei A. Navalny portrayed himself as invincible, consistently using his hallmark humor to suggest that President Vladimir V. Putin couldn’t break him, no matter how dire his conditions became in prison.

But behind the brave face, the reality was plain to see. Since his incarceration in early 2021, Mr. Navalny, Russia’s most formidable opposition figure, and his staff regularly suggested his conditions were so grim that he was being put to death in slow motion.

Now his aides believe their fears have come true.

The cause of Mr. Navalny’s death in prison at 47 has not been established — in fact his family has not yet even been allowed to see his body — but Russia’s harshest penal colonies are known for hazardous conditions, and Mr. Navalny was singled out for particularly brutal treatment.

“Aleksei Navalny was subjected to torment and torture for three years,” the Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitri A. Muratov wrote in a column after his death was announced on Friday. “As Navalny’s doctor told me: the body cannot withstand this.”

More than a quarter of Mr. Navalny’s incarceration since 2021 was spent in freezing “punishment cells” and he was often denied access to medical care. He was transferred to ever crueler prisons. And at one point, he said he was being given injections but was prevented from finding out what was in the syringes. His team worried he was again being poisoned.

What specifically led to Mr. Navalny’s death on Friday at a remote prison above the Arctic Circle may remain a mystery. The Russian prison service released a statement Friday afternoon saying that Mr. Navalny felt sick and suddenly lost consciousness after being outside.

Russian state media reported that he had suffered a blood clot. But the story changed on Saturday, when Mr. Navalny’s mother and lawyer arrived at the prison. They were told he had suffered from “sudden death syndrome,” which appeared to indicate sudden cardiac arrest, according to Ivan Zhdanov, director of Mr. Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation.

Investigators told a lawyer for Mr. Navalny that a repeat examination was being conducted and the results would be released next week. Mr. Navalny’s staff called for the body to be released immediately so that his family could order an independent analysis, accusing Russian authorities of lying to conceal the body.

According to his aides, Mr. Navalny had been put in a punishment cell at the Arctic prison in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region on Wednesday, two days before Russian authorities announced his death.

His spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said that marked his 27th time in such an inhumane space, usually a roughly 7-feet-by-10-feet concrete cell with unbearable conditions — cold, damp and poorly ventilated. His latest round of punishment, had he survived, would have taken his total period in such a cell to 308 days, more than a quarter of his time in incarceration, according to Ms. Yarmysh.

Once a day at 6:30 a.m., prisoners in the punishment cells at the Arctic facility are allowed into a coffin-like concrete enclosure open to the sky through a metal grate, Mr. Navalny said in a message from the facility earlier this year. It appeared to be after such a session on Friday that Mr. Navalny lost consciousness, according to the Russian prison service’s account. It was about -20 Fahrenheit outside.

In a letter from prison last month, Mr. Navalny described how he could walk a total of 11 steps from one end of the open-air space to the other, noting that the coldest it had been so far on one of his walks was -26 Fahrenheit.

“Even at this temperature, you can walk for more than half an hour, so long as you have time to grow a new nose, ears and fingers,” he wrote. “There are few things as invigorating as a walk in Yamal at 6:30 in the morning. And what a wonderful fresh breeze blows into the yard, despite the concrete enclosure, wow!”

While walking there on a recent day, he said he was freezing and thinking about how Leonardo DiCaprio climbed into a dead horse to escape the cold in the wilderness survival movie “The Revenant.” A dead horse would freeze in that part of Russia within 15 minutes, Mr. Navalny surmised.

“Here we need an elephant — a hot, fried elephant,” he said.

Mr. Navalny often employed such wit in the face of his inhumane treatment. But it had become increasingly clear, over his three years of incarceration, that he might not survive.

“The cumulative treatment of Navalny over several years in prison — in a way you could say it was driving him close to death,” Mariana Katzarova, the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia, said in an interview Saturday. “We don’t know yet. We need an investigation.”

For a time, Mr. Navalny did seem almost invincible.

In August 2020, he fell ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow, after being poisoned with a nerve agent from the Russian-made Novichok family. He was put into a medically induced coma for two weeks during treatment in Germany — and survived.

The U.S. government later attributed the poisoning to Russia’s Federal Security Service, known as the F.S.B.

Despite the assassination attempt, Mr. Navalny returned to Russia in early 2021 to continue his fight against Mr. Putin, who denied Russia’s involvement in the poisoning, and quickly found himself imprisoned. His health began to deteriorate almost immediately.

In March 2021, he complained about severe back pain that later turned into a problem with his leg.

He demanded that prison authorities provide him with proper medical care and give him medication. Instead, they subjected him to sleep deprivation, he said. At the end of March 2021, he declared a hunger strike over his treatment, and Russian doctors and Hollywood stars took up his cause in open letters to Mr. Putin.

About three weeks later, Mr. Navalny was examined by an independent panel of doctors. The tests by the doctors found that, “soon enough, there won’t be anyone to treat,” Mr. Navalny said in a message posted to Instagram.

Last year, Mr. Navalny wrote from prison that his jokes about the punishment cell shouldn’t normalize the environment. He lamented that a fellow political prisoner, who had spoken out against the war in Ukraine, had been put in a punishment cell, despite being disabled and missing part of his lung.

Mr. Navalny described dire health conditions in prison, where he said many inmates suffered from tuberculosis. He also complained early last year about the administration in his former prison placing a mentally unwell person in a cell opposite his, as a form of torment, and an ill prisoner in his small cell.

At the time, his lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, said the prison deliberately infected him with a respiratory illness, refused to give him medicine and then “treated” him with huge doses of contraindicated antibiotics. Mr. Navalny suffered severe stomach pain and lost more than 15 pounds as a result, Mr. Kobzev said.

“These actions can’t be regarded as anything other than an open strategy to destroy Navalny’s health by any and all means,” Mr. Kobzev said in a statement at the time. “Obviously, the prison wouldn’t risk engaging in this level of demonstrative unlawfulness without approval from Moscow.”

Mr. Kobzev has since been arrested on extremism charges for associating with Mr. Navalny — part of a broader roundup of the opposition leader’s attorneys late last year.

Mr. Navalny suffered a dizzy spell and was put on an IV drip in an unexplained medical episode in early December. But Russian authorities still transferred him later that month from a prison in the Vladimir region, about 130 miles east of Moscow, to the “special regime” penal colony in the Arctic where he died.

Several doctors contacted after his death, including one who was involved in his initial treatment in the Siberian city of Omsk, said his death was likely unrelated to his poisoning more than three years earlier, given his robust recovery.

But he faced many other health hazards since then.

“A Russian prison is a place where you have to be prepared to die every day,” Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a Russian tycoon who spent a decade in prison after challenging Mr. Putin, said on Friday.

In the interview, Mr. Khodorkovsky, who was released in 2013, said a prisoner must find a way to treat the burden as a test in order to survive mentally, and Mr. Navalny had done that. But even then, he added, “this will not protect you from being killed.”

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As I said, you put someone in a penal colony like this, and then single him out for additional cruel treatment, with the expectation that they will not be able to withstand the conditions and die soon.

It's a tactic that Hitler has employed, Stalin, Mao, Xi, Pinochet, Marcos, Franco, Assad, Gaddafi, Pots, every tyrant and dictator you can think of. And Putin does too.

Navalny's suffering is over now. But Putin must be opposed at all costs, in every way.

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UM TRIBUNAL RUSSO rejeitou uma ação movida pela mãe de Alexei Navalny, o líder da oposição russa que morreu na prisão em fevereiro, que alegava que ele recebeu cuidados médicos inadequados quando morreu. O serviço prisional da região de Yamalo-Nenets, no noroeste da Rússia, disse que no dia da sua morte, Navalny “sentiu-se mal depois de uma caminhada” e perdeu quase imediatamente a consciência. A causa da sua morte, em 16 de fevereiro, foi descrita pelas autoridades como sendo de causas naturais. Numa mensagem no X, a viúva de Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, disse que o tribunal da cidade de Labytnangi “rejeitou o caso” movido por Lyudmila Navalnaya. Ela acrescentou: “Há apenas uma razão (pela qual o caso foi arquivado) – no julgamento, eles tiveram que fornecer documentos e vídeos sobre o que aconteceu em 16 de fevereiro”. Anúncio googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1365092406213-1'); ); Hoje, em Labytnangi, houve um julgamento sobre a reclamação da mãe de Alexei contra a colônia por prestação indevida de cuidados médicos. O tribunal rejeitou o caso. O motivo é apenas um: no julgamento eles tiveram que fornecer documentos e vídeos sobre o que aconteceu em 16 de fevereiro- Yulia Navalnaya (@yulia_navalnaya) 21 de março de 2024 Ivan Zhdanov, chefe da Fundação Anticorrupção fundada por Navalny, disse que o tribunal de Labytnangi, perto da prisão do Ártico onde morreu, rejeitou o caso porque disse que apenas Navalny poderia ser o demandante. “Alexei muitas vezes apresentou queixas contra as colônias por falta de assistência médica. As reivindicações foram negadas. Agora que ele foi morto, a alegação de sua família está sendo negada com palavras zombeteiras”, disse Zhdanov no aplicativo de mensagens Telegram. A mãe de Navalny, Lyudmila Navalnaya, saiu, e a sogra Alla Abrosimova visitam o túmulo de Alexei Navalny após seu funeral Alamy Banco de Imagem Alamy Banco de Imagem Navalny, o inimigo mais persistente do presidente Vladimir Putin, cumpria pena de 19 anos. Ele mobilizou enormes protestos antigovernamentais contra Putin antes de ser preso em 2021. Ele foi envenenado com um agente nervoso da era soviética no ano anterior e acusou Putin de estar por trás do ataque – algo que o Kremlin negou.

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UPDATE: Volkov has been taken to the hospital following the attack, Navalny ally Ivan Zhdanov said. Zhdanov published a photo showing Volkov on a stretcher being pushed into an ambulance. Read more | Subscribe to our channel

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Alexei Navalny’s mother is being threatened by 36-year-old employee of the Investigative Committee for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Alexander Varapaev...

According to FBK director Ivan Zhdanov, Varapaev called Alexei Navalny’s mother and demanded that the politician be buried secretly. “He stated that “you know, the body is decomposing, and time is not in your favor, think and agree to our conditions. And we also have media resources to tell more of some nuances that no one would want to know.” , said Zhdanov.

https://t.me/svobodnieslova/4107

What might that mean? Nuances no one would want to know?

#like they are doinf this bc they dont want to tell anything?#what things would they tell they could hold over Navalny's family?#russia #navalny

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Alexei Navalny was killed ‘by punch to the heart’

The Russian opposition leader had been weakened in sub-zero temperatures before being struck by Putin’s henchmen in a classic KGB technique, a human rights activist claims

Tom Ball

Tuesday February 20 2024, 6.45pm GMT, The Times

Alexei Navalny was likely to have been killed with a punch to the heart, a technique that was once taught to KGB special forces operatives, after being exposed to freezing conditions for several hours, it has been claimed.

Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the human rights group Gulagu.net, told The Times that bruising found on the opposition leader’s body was consistent with a “one-punch” technique, citing a source working in the Arctic penal colony where Navalny died on Friday.

Before his death, Navalny, 47, had been forced to spend more than two and a half hours outdoors in an open-air solitary confinement space where temperatures could dip to minus 27C, Osechkin said. Prisoners were normally kept outdoors for no more than one hour, and much less in such extreme conditions.

“I think that they first destroyed his body by keeping him out in the cold for a long time and slowing the blood circulation down to a minimum,” Osechkin said. “And then it becomes very easy to kill someone, within seconds, if the operative has some experience in this.

“It is an old method of the KGB’s special forces divisions. They trained their operatives to kill a man with one punch in the heart, in the centre of the body. It was a hallmark of the KGB.”…

Last week, it published a report which stated that officers from the FSB visited the prison two days before Navalny’s death and disconnected some of its security cameras and listening devices.

Osechkin said that the presence of FSB officers at the prison was evidence that Navalny’s death was ordered by the Kremlin.

“From what I know from my sources, it was a special operation that had been prepared several days in advance,” he said. “It was a command from Moscow because without Moscow it would not have been possible to dismantle the cameras in the way that they did.”…

On Monday, it was announced that a senior prison official, who was accused of intervening on several occasions to ensure that Navalny would be treated harshly, was promoted.

A directive issued from the president’s office promoted Valery Boyarinev, previously deputy director of the prison service, to the rank of colonel general.

Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, posted an image of the decree on X, where he wrote that the promotion was a “personal reward for torture and murder from Putin.”

“Boyarinev personally supervised the torture of Alexei Navalny in prison. Restricting Alexei’s purchase of food, like all other tortures, was Boyarinev’s personal order from the FSIN,” Zhdanov wrote….

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Over 400 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny, Putin's fiercest foe

Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.

The sudden death of Navalny, 47, was a crushing blow to many Russians, who had pinned their hopes for the future on President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe. Navalny remained vocal in his unrelenting criticism of the Kremlin even after surviving a nerve agent poisoning and receiving multiple prison terms.

The news reverberated across the globe, and hundreds of people in dozens of Russian cities streamed to ad-hoc memorials and monuments to victims of political repressions with flowers and candles on Friday and Saturday to pay a tribute to the politician. In over a dozen cities, police detained 401 people by Saturday night, according to the OVD-Info rights group that tracks political arrests and provides legal aid.

More than 200 arrests were made in St Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, the group said. Among those detained there was Grigory Mikhnov-Voitenko, a priest of the Apostolic Orthodox Church — a religious group independent of the Russian Orthodox Church — who announced plans on social media to hold a memorial service for Navalny and was arrested on Saturday morning outside his home.

He was charged with organising a rally and placed in a holding cell in a police precinct, but was later hospitalised with a stroke, OVD-Info reported.

Courts in St Petersburg have ordered 42 of those detained on Friday to serve from one to six days in jail, while nine others were fined, court officials said late on Saturday. In Moscow, at least six people were ordered to serve 15 days in jail, according to OVD-Info. One person was also jailed in the southern city of Krasnodar and two more in the city of Bryansk, the group said.

The news of Navalny's death came a month before a presidential election in Russia that is widely expected to give President Vladimir Putin another six years in power. Questions about the cause of death lingered on Sunday, and it remained unclear when the authorities would release his body to his family.

Navalny's team said Saturday that the politician was “murdered” and accused the authorities of deliberately stalling the release of the body, with Navalny's mother and lawyers getting contradicting information from various institutions where they went in their quest to retrieve the body. “They're driving us around in circles and covering their tracks,” Navalny's spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on Saturday.

“Everything there is covered with cameras in the colony. Every step he took was filmed from all angles all these years. Each employee has a video recorder. In two days, there has been not a single video leaked or published. There is no room for uncertainty here,” Navalny's closest ally and strategist Leonid Volkov said Sunday.

A note handed to Navalny's mother stated that he died at 2:17 pm Friday, according to Yarmysh. Prison officials told his mother when she arrived at the penal colony Saturday that her son had perished from “sudden death syndrome,” Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service reported that Navalny felt sick after a walk Friday and became unconscious at the penal colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets region about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. An ambulance arrived, but he couldn't be revived, the service said, adding that the cause of death is still “being established.”

Source : Over 400 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny, Putin's fiercest foe

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