Vengeful Putin puts Navalny's brother on most wanted list as Russia goes after grieving family of slain 'enemy No. 1'
VLADIMIR Putin has reportedly added Alexei Navalny's grieving brother to his 'most wanted' list.
Just a few days after Putin's biggest critic died in jail, from Navalny Younger brother Oleg would have to file new criminal charges Russia.
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Father-of-two Oleg Navalny, 40, is currently believed to be abroad and has been seen in Cyprus and Germany.
His older brother Alexei, 47, died on Friday while serving a 19-year prison sentence at the FKU IK-3 correctional colony in Russia's Arctic.
Russia claimed the lawyer, who encouraged opposition leader and Putinthe fiercest enemy, 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”.
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Some reports now indicate that Alexei's younger brother Oleg is wanted on a new, unspecified criminal charge, while others suggest he may be wanted on previous charges considered politically motivated.
The brothers were close and Oleg has previously been to prison because of their connection.
Last year, Oleg opened a mock punishment cell outside the Russian embassy in Berlin to highlight the terrible conditions in which his brother was being held.
Oleg said at the time: “The punishment cell is the future that Putin is preparing for Russia and for the whole world.
“Instead of a view, all you have is a bucket [for toilet] and a bunk bed [bed] attached to the wall.
“We are confident that everyone in prison will be released. We are fighting for this and calling on the public to join the campaign for the release of Alexei Navalny and other political prisoners.”
His mother Lyudmila, 69, gave an emotional speech to Putin from outside on Tuesday prison “Polar Wolf”. where Alexei died.
She called on the president to release his body so they could have a dignified funeral.
“Behind me is the penal colony IK-3 Polar Wolf, where my son Alexei Navalny died on February 16,” she said.
“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.”
Reports later emerged that Putin had set his sights on her other son, Oleg.
Alexei's heartbroken wife Julia Navalnaya47, has accused Putin of killing her husband with the deadly nerve agent Novichok.
The president was claimed by sources to “do everything possible to prevent” anyone – except Russian police officers and selected aid workers – from seeing his body.
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.
And shocking images appeared to show Alexei's body smuggled out of prison.
Russian authorities said they would not hand over his body for two weeks “until a chemical examination is completed,” according to Alexei's former campaign manager Ivan Zhdanov.
In an emotional video shared via Alexei's YouTube account, widow Yulia called out the Kremlin for “lying and waiting” for the toxins in his body to disappear.
She claimed her husband was murdered by the “shameful” Putin without the president “ever daring to look him in the eye.”
Yulia added: “They hide his body, don't show it to his mother, don't give it to her to mourn.
“They lie and wait for the traces of another Putin novichok to disappear.”
Alexei's death in prison was preceded by a long list of 'murders' and suspicious deaths of Putin's critics and opponents.
More than 20 have died mysteriously – with methods ranging from poisoning to plane crashes – since Putin regained consciousness current in 1999, while many others have survived alleged assassination attempts.
Putin has denied the allegations of wrongdoing.
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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 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 run 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