Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition, was discovered dead on Friday; it is believed that he fell ill after taking a stroll around the harsh Arctic prison camp where he had been detained since December.
The specifics of what transpired are still unknown; Russian officials claim they are still investigating the cause of Navalny’s death, while his sympathisers claim they have not received formal confirmation of his passing.
However, supporters—including wife Yulia Navalnaya—were quick to point the finger at Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming he was behind Navalny’s 2020 fatal nerve agent poisoning.
Putin’s opponents have frequently been the target of assassination attempts throughout his almost 25 years in office. Russian officials have been accused by those close to the victims and the few survivors, although the Kremlin has always denied any participation.
A number of dubious incidents, including tea tainted with polonium, mysterious plane accidents, and sharp drops from windows, have befallen Putin’s opponents over the years.
After returning after recording an investigative piece on corruption in Siberia, Navalny became unwell in August 2020 while travelling from Tomsk to Moscow. He had posted a number of videos on his well-liked YouTube channel recently endorsing the pro-democracy protests taking place in Belarus, an ally.
The plane’s video captured Navalny’s abrupt and severe deterioration, with him sobbing in agony. After the aircraft was forced to land in Omsk, Navalny was taken to a hospital and placed in a coma. He was evacuated to Berlin two days later, where he miraculously recovered.
At first, it was believed he had been poisoned by the Russian state adding toxins to his tea, and his team said he had only stopped in an airport café for a drink in the morning. Later, CNN reported a Russian agent sent to tail Navalny had planted Novichok in his underwear.
From 1971 to 1993, a governmental research laboratory in the Soviet Union produced Novichok chemical agents, which were allegedly the most lethal substances ever created. Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, two British nationals, were also subjected to them in Salisbury in 2018.
The agent was designed to be undetectable by NATO equipment, potentially causing seizures, loss of consciousness, wheezing, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, high followed by low blood pressure and profuse sweating.
Although Russia denied poisoning Navalny, authorities and a governmental agency in charge of removing Soviet-era technology would later face sanctions from the US, the EU, and the UK.
Why does Russia allow this murderous thug to rule them? He’s one deranged man, and he should be stopped before he kills everyone.
This man kills at will, and it doesn’t seem that anyone can stop him, but why can’t Vladimir Putin face the same fate as Sadam Hussain? Well, that’s because nobody dares to do it.
The prolonged and agonising traumas that this guy has inflicted upon others are exactly what he deserves.
Of course, the US and UK governments would never kill their political enemies or those who cause them problems. I don’t condone any country or leader doing that, but let’s not pretend we’re lily-white, and this guy makes Henry VIII look like a shy man.
Vladimir Putin ordered the FSB to bomb apartments in 1999, killing over 300 innocent Russians, as part of his ascent to power.
All British politicians, like Blair and Cameron, knew about it. Litvinenko was murdered in London because he wrote a book about it, and our politicians, financiers, and Russian servants have been complicit with Putin for over two decades, Blair and Cameron feting Putin at the G7/G8 meetings was disgusting, and they should all be punished.
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