Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he was killed by poisoning while serving a prison sentence in an Arctic penal colony in 2024. In a video shared on social media, Yulia Navalnaya said analysis of smuggled biological samples carried out by laboratories in two countries showed that her husband had been ‘murdered.’ She did not provide details on the poison allegedly used, on the samples or on the analysis – but challenged the two laboratories to publish their results. Navalny – an anti-corruption campaigner and Russia’s most vociferous opposition leader – died suddenly in jail on 16 February 2024 at the age of 47. … he had been in jail for three years on trumped-up charges and had recently been transferred to a penal colony in the Arctic Circle.” (09/17/25)