Alexei Navalny killed 'with a single blow to the heart in classic KGB tactics' after being forced to spend hours outside in -27ºC
ALEXEI Navalny was killed with a single blow to the heart after spending hours in freezing temperatures, it has been claimed.
The brutal method was once a “hallmark of the KGB,” according to its founder human rights group Gulagu.net.
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Vladimir Putin's most formidable domestic opponent Navalny47, died in prison Friday while serving a 19-year prison sentence on extremism charges the IK-3 Arctic jail colony.
Russia the lawyer claimed died of “sudden death syndrome”.
It was later claimed that his body had been found under the bruisesas his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh claimed he had been “murdered”.
Russian-born human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin said this The times that the bruises on Navalny's body were consistent with the “one-punch” technique previously taught to KGB special forces agents.
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Osechkin further claimed that the Russian lawyer was forced to spend more than two and a half hours outside in an open-air solitary confinement room, where temperatures were as low as -27 degrees Celsius.
Prisoners were not normally kept outside for more than an hour – even less under such extreme conditions.
The information from the Russian dissident is said to come from a source working in the correction colony FKU IK-3 – also known as the Polar Wolf Prison – where Navalny died.
He said: 'I think they destroyed his body first by leaving him out in the cold for a long time and limiting blood circulation to a minimum.
'And then it becomes very easy to kill someone in a matter of seconds, if the officer has any experience with that.
'It's an old method of the KGB special forces. They trained their agents to kill a man with one blow to the heart, right in the center of the body. It was a hallmark of the KGB.”
Former prisoners serving their sentences in the Arctic previously reported that prisoners were killed in the same way by their jailers, Osechkin added.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service initially said the Putin critic “felt unwell” after walking around the prison, “lost consciousness almost immediately,” and that medical staff were unable to save him.
A state-controlled channel on Telegram claimed the same day that he had died of a blood clot.
On Saturday, Navalny's mother and his lawyer were told that he had done so died of “sudden death syndrome”.
Navalny's heartbroken widow Yulia Navalnaya suggested on Monday that he was killed using Novichok, the nerve agent used by FSB assassins in their attempt to kill him in August 2020.
Speaking about the possibility that the poison is the cause of Navalny's death, Osechkin said: “It is of course possible, but if a person is under the control of the prison system there are many options to kill him.
“Novichok would leave a trace in his body and lead straight back to Putin, as he has tried it once before.”
Based on information provided to him by his sources, he said he believed Navalny's death was “a special operation prepared several days in advance.”
The death of Alexei Navalny
VLADIMIR Putin's most vocal domestic enemy died on Friday in the Arctic prison where he was serving a 19-year sentence.
The death of Alexei Navalny was announced on Friday, February 16 at 2:19 PM Moscow time by the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.
The Russian Prison Service claimed that Navalny “felt unwell after a walk and lost consciousness almost immediately.”
The correctional service stated: “The medical staff of the institution arrived immediately and an ambulance team was called.
“All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out, but they did not yield positive results. Ambulance doctors declared the convict dead. The causes of death are being determined.”
Navalny's mother Lyudmila, 69, was informed of her son's death, with the time of death given as Friday, February 16, at 2:17 pm local time.
Ivan Zhdanov, director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said Navalny's lawyer and mother were told on Saturday that he died of “sudden death.”
But an unidentified source told state-controlled RT that Navalny died of a blood clot.
Russian investigators have yet to determine Navalny's cause of death.
It is unclear where his body is currently located, although some sources say it was taken to a hospital mortuary and showed signs of bruising.
Osechkin claimed: “It was an order from Moscow, because without Moscow it would not have been possible to dismantle the cameras in the way they did.”
Navalny's mother Lyudmila, 69, gave an emotional speech to Putin on Tuesday from the prison where her son died, calling on the president to let go of his body to allow for a humane burial.
She said: “Behind me is the penal colony IK-3 Polar Wolfwhere my son Alexei Navalny died on February 16.
“I can't see him until the fifth day. They won't give me his body and they won't even tell me where he is.
“I appeal to you, Vladimir Putin, the solution to the problem depends only on you. Finally let me see my son.
“I demand that Alexei's body be immediately transferred so that I can bury him humanely.”
This later became apparent from reports Putin is said to have set his sights on her other son, Oleg.
It was claimed that Navalny's younger brother, a 40-year-old father of two, was facing a new and unspecified criminal charge in Russia.
He is currently believed to be abroad and has been seen in Cyprus and Germany.
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The life of Alexei Navalny
Putin's best-known opponent Alexei Navalny, 47, died in prison on Friday.
Here's a timeline that took the leader of the opposition from being the face of freedom in Russia and the Kremlin's greatest enemy to a hellish Siberian prison and to an early grave.
June 4, 1976 — Navalny was born in a western part of the Moscow region
1997 — Graduated from Russia's RUDN University, where he studied law
2004 – Forms a movement against rampant overdevelopment in Moscow
2008 — Gains fame for exposing corruption in state-owned enterprises
December 2011 – Participates in mass protests sparked by reports of widespread manipulation of Russia's elections, and is arrested and jailed for 15 days for “defying a government official”
March 2012 – More mass protests break out and Navalny accuses key Kremlin henchmen of corruption
July 2012 — Russia's Investigative Committee accuses Navalny of embezzlement. He rejects the claims, saying they are politically motivated
2013 — Navalny wants to become mayor of Moscow
July 2013 – A court in Kirov convicts Navalny of embezzlement in the Kirovles case and sentences him to five years in prison. He appeals and is allowed to continue his campaign
September 2013 — Official results show Navalny finishing second in the mayoral race
February 2014 — Navalny is placed under house arrest
December 2014 — Navalny and his brother Oleg are found guilty of fraud
February 2016 — The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia violated Navalny's right to a fair trial
November 2016 — Russia's Supreme Court overturned Navalny's sentence
December 2016 — Navalny announces he will participate in the 2018 Russian presidential elections
February 2017 — The Kirov court retrials Navalny and upholds his five-year suspended sentence from 2013
April 2017 – Survives an assassination attempt that he blames on the Kremlin
December 2017 — Russia's Central Electoral Commission prevents him from running for president
August 2020 – Navalny falls into a coma during a flight and his team suspects he has been poisoned. German authorities confirm he was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent.
January 2021 — After five months in Germany, Navalny is arrested upon his return to Russia
February 2021 — A Moscow court orders Navalny to serve a 2.5-year prison sentence
June 2021 — A Moscow court shuts down Navalny's Foundation for the Fight against Corruption and his extensive political network
February 2022 – Russia invades Ukraine
March 2022 — Navalny is sentenced to an additional nine years in prison for embezzlement and contempt of court
2023 – More than 400 Russian doctors sign an open letter to Putin urging an end to what she calls abuse of Navalny, after reports that he was denied basic medication and suffered slow poisoning
April 2023 – Navalny says from prison he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life
August 2023 – A court in Russia extends Navalny's prison sentence by 19 years
December 2023 – He disappears from his prison because his team is afraid he will be killed. He reappears weeks later in one of Siberia's toughest prisons: the 'The Arctic wolf colony