Alexei Navalny’s aide, Leonid Volkov, was hit with a hammer in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. This was reported by Kira Yarmysh, who used to work with Navalny.
Volkov was just hurt outside his house. Someone broke a car window and sprayed tear gas in Leonid’s eyes. Then they started hitting him with a hammer. This was posted on social media website X.
She shared pictures of Volkov with a bump on his head, blood on his leg, and a car with a damaged door and window.
Lithuania’s Foreign Affairs Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, who is also the leader of the ruling party, called the attack “surprising and disturbing. ”
“He wrote on X that the people who committed the crime will have to explain themselves. ”
The Lithuanian police were told that a man was attacked outside his house, and they are looking into it.
The police put a fence around a pine forest near Volkov’s house on the outskirts of Vilnius. They were using dogs and flashlights to search the forest late on Tuesday night.
Many members of Navalny’s political group, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, including Volkov, are now living in Lithuania, a member of the European Union and NATO, after leaving Russia.
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Alexei Navalny’s assistant, Volkov attacked in Lithuania with hammer
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Thousands bid farewell to Alexei Navalny
Many people offered their final farewells to Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow. Alexei Navalny died two weeks ago in a prison, and the cause of his death is still unknown. The funeral had a lot of police there to keep things safe.
The service happened after a struggle with officials to release the body of President Vladimir Putin’s strongest critic. His friends said that many churches in Moscow didn’t want to do the funeral for the man who fought against corruption and organized big protests. Western leaders said the Russian leader was responsible for the death, but the Kremlin denied this angrily.
Navalny’s team finally got approval from the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, which was surrounded by barriers on Friday.
As the box with his body was brought out of the car and carried into the church, the people outside clapped and said his name. Some also yelled, “You were brave and so are we. ” and later “We don’t want war. ”
American and other Western diplomats Ambassador Lynn Tracy and some presidential candidates, Boris Nadezhdin and Yekaterina Duntsova, went to the event. Both of them wanted to compete with Putin in the next election and disagreed with his war in Ukraine. But neither of them were allowed to be on the ballot.
A picture inside the church showed Navalny’s body in an open casket with red and white flowers on top, and his mother sitting next to it holding a candle.
Navalny’s dad was there too, but it was not known if anyone else from his family was there. His wife, Yulia Navalnaya, spoke at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France two days ago. His daughter is studying at Stanford University, and we don’t know where his son is.
The politician’s friends left Russia because they were under pressure. They watched his funeral online from a different country.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned people in Moscow and other places not to do anything illegal, because large gatherings without permission are against the law.
“Nadezhda Ivanova, who lives in Kaliningrad, said that people who pay attention to current events can see that this man is a hero of our country. We won’t forget him. ” “Everything that happened to him is really hard to understand and deal with. ”
After the quick funeral, a large group of people walked from the church to the nearby Borisovskoye Cemetery. The police were also there in big numbers for the burial.
Navalny’s parents and others touched and kissed his body while the casket was open. At the same time, many people who support the person who passed away came to the cemetery. They were shouting, “We want to come in and say goodbye. ”
They put the coffin in the ground, allies said.
Navalny’s mom, Lyudmila Navalnaya, spent eight days asking officials to let her have her son’s body after he died in February. 16 people died at a prison camp. In a town called Kharp, in a place called Yamalo-Nenets region, which is about 1,900 kilometres (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.
Even on Friday, the place where the body was being kept took a long time to let it go, according to Ivan Zhdanov, who is a close friend of Navalny and is in charge of his Anti-Corruption Foundation.
The police said they couldn’t give back the body because they needed to do some tests on it after the person had died. Navalnaya asked Putin to let her bury her son properly and with respect, in a video.
One person in charge of funerals said he was not allowed to help Navalny’s supporters, according to Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh on social media. They had a hard time finding a car to carry the coffin.
Yarmysh said that people we don’t know are calling and threatening others not to move Alexei’s body.The Russian government has not said why Navalny, who was 47, died.
Navalny went to jail in January 2021 after coming back to Moscow from Germany, where he was getting better from being poisoned with a nerve agent that he said the Kremlin did.
The Russian government said his Foundation for Fighting Corruption and his offices in different areas were “extremist organizations” that year.
His wife said that Putin and the Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, tried to stop a public funeral.
“We just want people to have the chance to say goodbye to Alexei in a regular way. No special treatment needed,” Yulia Navalnaya wrote on the platform previously known as Twitter. In a talk to European lawmakers on Wednesday, she also said she was worried that the police might interrupt the gathering or would “arrest those who have come to say goodbye to my husband. ”
The government in Moscow said no to holding a special event to remember Navalny and Boris Nemtsov because of COVID-19 rules. This was announced by politician Yekaterina Duntsova. Nemtsov, who used to be a deputy prime minister, was killed while walking on a bridge near the Kremlin on the night of February. He was 55 years old. 27th of May, 2015.
Yarmysh requested that people who support Navalny put flowers in his memory on Friday.
Yarmysh said on Thursday that everyone who knew Alexei said he was a happy, brave, and truthful person. “But the real truth is that even if you didn’t meet Alexei, you still knew what kind of person he was. ” You helped with his investigations, you joined him at rallies, and you read his posts while he was in prison. His behavior taught a lot of people how to act even when things were frightening and hard. -
Wagner hired steal flowers placed in memory of Alexei Navalny
Wagner’s hired supporters surprisingly steal flowers that were put down to remember Alexei Navalny, who strongly opposed Putin, and putting them on their leader’s grave.
In honor of the late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who passed away in a plane accident last year, tributes are being organized to commemorate his legacy.
Thousands of people have silently paid their respects to Navalny, who was 47yearsold and died two weeks ago in a prison in the Arctic. He was sent to the prison for speaking against the Russian government.
But the men who left flowers at the memorial for people who were hurt by Russian people might have been reported to the military and might have to go fight in the war.
More than 100 people have been arrested in eight cities for leaving tributes, according to OVD-Info, a group that watches political punishment in Russia.
Video shows Natalya Khim, a 35-year-old former reality show star who supports Wagner, talking about people laying flowers at Lubyanka Square to remember Alexei Navalny.
“We are aware that he passed away, but we are not sad about it. “Me and Wagner’s private army,along with other people in the Special Military Operation,decided not to leave any flowers here.
“From now on, we will collect and move all the flowers in memory of Navalny to a special memorial for soldiers in the war. “
Khim used to be part of a Russian neo-Nazi group called the Slavic Union, but now she writes a blog supporting war.
She said,”Ihope no dogs come to our memorial and take anything from there. “
Video also shows a person who supports Wagner, wearing black clothes and a covered face, moving flowers from the shrine of Navalny to a Wagner stall.
Many people arrested at gatherings in Russia to remember Navalny. His body was given back to his mother just last week, according to an aide.
Lyudmila Navalnya was being threatened and blackmailed by Putin’s government to bury her son privately without any public goodbye.
His wife Yulia Navalnaya said that Vladimir Putin was very cruel to her late husband’s body and made it impossible for her to do anything with it.
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Alexei Navalny to be laid to rest this Friday in Moscow
Alexei Navalny will be laid to rest in a Moscow cemetery on Friday, a spokesperson has confirmed.
According to leader of the dissenting group the event will take place at Borisovskoye Cemetery, following a ceremony to say goodbye to him in the Maryino area.
The leader of the dissenting group mentioned on Tuesday that they were struggling to find a location for a funeral. Some places said no when they found out who it was for.
Alexei Navalny died in a prison in the Arctic earlier this month.
For a longtime, he was the most well-known person who criticized Vladimir Putin. Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Navalny, and many world leaders have said that the Russian president is directly responsible for his death.
Navalny’s team planned to have the funeral on 29 February, but they couldn’t find anyone to dig the grave on that day. Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, wrote about it.
Mr Zhdanov suggested that the reason for this was because Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to give his yearly speech to the Federal Assembly on the same day.
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Alexei Navalny “died of natural causes” – Russian medical report
A report from Russia’s doctors on Alexei Navalny‘s death says he died from ‘natural causes’.
Navalny’s associates and relatives accused Vladimir Putin of being responsible for his death, while the Kremlin vehemently denied any involvement. The news came out after they said this. Kira Yarmysh, who works for Navalny, posted on X that Navalny’s mother received the findings.
Navalny often spoke out against Vladimir Putin and was someone that the Russian president was most afraid of.
His mother Lyudmila told her story of being questioned by Russian investigators for over 24 hours without having a lawyer with her.
She also said the people looking into it were getting ready for a hidden funeral for Navalny. They want it to be done quietly, with no chance to say goodbye.
“They want to take me to a cemetery and show me a new grave and say: your son is buried here. ” I don’t think this is a good idea.
Lyudmila said that the investigators took her to see Navalny’s body at the morgue and then threatened her.
She said: “I saw them get instructions from the Kremlin or the main office of the Investigative Committee. “Can you simplify this text please.
Navalny’s mother wants a public funeral so that people who cared about Alexei can say goodbye to him.
Lyudmila said: ‘I’m making this video because someone is threatening me. They looked into my eyes and said that if I don’t agree to a secret funeral, they will do something to my son’s body. ‘
A person told Lyudmila that time is not on her side. The dead body is rotting.
He made the leader really angry by speaking out against corruption. He called the leader and his party names and showed documents of their crimes.
However, his death has caused more confusion than clarity– his body had bruises on it and people suspect that there were spies at the prison when he died.
And Putin had tried to hurt Navalny before –making him very sick and have to go to another country to get better.
Navalny’s family has promised to keep fighting, even though they are grieving less than a week after his death.
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President Biden visits widow and daughter of Alexei Navalny
Joe Biden had a secret meeting with the wife and daughter of Alexei Navalny, a Russian political leader who died in a prison last week.
After the meeting with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya in California, the US president said that Navalny’s bravery will always be remembered by them.
A well-known critic of the Russian government, Alexei Navalny, died unexpectedly while taking a walk, according to the prison service.
However, his spouse thinks that the Russian leader told someone to kill her husband.
Many world leaders have said that Vladimir Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death. The US is getting ready to announce more sanctions against Russia.
Pictures from the White House show Mr. Biden hugging Yulia and talking with her and Dasha in a hotel room in San Francisco.
Later, he told reporters that Ms. Navalnaya will keep fighting. “She keeps trying and won’t quit. ”
The White House said that the new round of sanctions, which will target about 500 individuals and companies, will be the largest since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago.
John Kirby, who speaks on behalf of national security, said that the new measures were taken because of what happened to Navalny.
The Kremlin says Navalny was not murdered in prison and criticizes the West for reacting too strongly.
Navalny’s mom Lyudmila Navalnaya said on a YouTube video that she is being threatened by the government about where her son will be buried.
“They’re threatening to do something to my son’s body if I don’t agree to a private funeral. ”
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Yulia, widow of Alexei Navalny, confronts difficult task in Russia
For a long time, Yulia Navalnaya was always with her husband. She always went to political protests and court hearings, and would sometimes hold his hand there.
In 2020, when Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent, Yulia helped get permission for him to go to another country for treatment that saved his life.
And now he has passed away by himself in a prison far away in the Arctic.
She says it’s Putin’s fault and wants Russians to help her fight him.
Yulia Navalnaya posted a video online on Monday to gain attention in politics. She loves her husband a lot, and she is still very sad, so it’s hard to watch some parts of the recording.
But it is very convincing.
Navalny’s wife says she feels extremely sad and torn apart. But her anger is what makes her want to keep fighting for her husband’s cause.
She wants to make Russia better in the future so that his death will have meaning.
Some Russians who don’t like Mr. Putin might feel better after hearing the speech.
Until now, Yulia Navalnaya was quiet and kept to herself. However, the video shows that she is a very strong woman.
Her experience of loss and love gives her a strong sense of right and wrong, and she is very likeable.
Powerful women
In the past, strong women have taken over when men were not around.
In nearby Belarus, the leader Alexander Lukashenko didn’t think Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was a threat, so he let her join the 2020 presidential race after her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky was arrested.
MrLukashenko almost lost his power because of sexism. When he said he won by a lot, Ms. Tikhanovskaya brought many people to the streets, yelling about a dishonest vote.
She had to leave her country after the KGB warned her, and now she is like a leader in another country.
Evgenia Kara-Murza has also started working on a worldwide level.
When her husband was poisoned in Moscow in 2015 and 2017, Evgenia stayed by his side in the hospital, watching over him closely.
At that time, Vladimir Kara-Murza was working to get Western leaders to make things harder for Putin’s supporters by using sanctions.
In 2022, he got in trouble for speaking out against Russia’s actions in Ukraine and was found guilty of betraying his country.
Evgenia, who usually works as a translator, is now spending most of her time supporting her husband’s campaign for sanctions and also calling for his freedom in Western cities.
Defeating opponents completely.
Yulia Navalnaya could do the same job.
She already talked to EU foreign ministers, who are very angry about Navalny’s death. They said Mr. Putin is ultimately responsible and there will be more consequences, but they didn’t say what they are yet.
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Body of Alexei Navalny to be kept for “chemical analysis” for two weeks
Reportedly, Alexei Navalny’s family have been told that they will not get his body for two weeks after his death in a Russian prison. Navalny was a critic of Putin.
His mother was told that it was being kept for “chemical analysis,” a spokesperson for Navalny mentioned.
Russian authorities have not said where the body is, and they keep stopping efforts to find it.
The wife of the Russian opposition leader who passed away has said that they are hiding something.
On Monday, Yulia Navalnaya said in a video that she will keep fighting for a “free Russia” and directly blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for her husband’s death. She also claimed that his body was being kept until any signs of Novichok poisoning had gone away.
Navalny was able to stay alive after someone tried to kill him with Novichok in 2020.
Ms Navalnaya’s voice was sometimes shaky with sadness and anger. She asked people to support her and feel the same anger and hate towards the people who killed their future.
Navalny died in prison on Friday. The people in charge of the prison in Siberia said he never woke up after he passed out during a walk.
His mother and lawyer went to the faraway colony right after they found out he had died.
Efforts to find the body have been stopped by the prison morgue and local officials many times.
The Kremlin said they are still investigating Navalny‘s death on Monday, but they haven’t found any results yet.
Later, Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said that the investigators told Navalny’s mother Lyudmila that they would not give back the body for two weeks because they need to do a “chemical analysis”.
In her video, Ms Navalnaya said she thinks Navalny was poisoned. The video looked similar to the ones her husband used to make.
“They are not letting his mother see his body and they are lying about it. ” “She said she is waiting for Putin’s latest Novichok to go away. ”
Navalny, who was a important leader for the Russian opposition for the last 10 years, was in jail for 19 years for reasons that many people think were political.
Western leaders say President Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death.
On Monday, President Joe Biden said that Putin is to blame for the situation, whether he ordered it or not.
At a meeting with reporters on Monday, the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said that Putin’s government in Russia slowly killed Navalny while he was in jail.
The EU and the US are thinking about putting more restrictions on Russia after Navalny died.
The UK’s top diplomat, Lord Cameron, also stated that he believes Britain and the other wealthy G7 countries will put new penalties on Russians connected to the person’s death.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the comments made by Western politicians about Navalny’s death were disrespectful and not okay.
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They attack me through criminal prosecution – Navalny (flashback)
In 2017, BBC Hardtalk interviewed Alexei Navalny, a leader who opposes the government, before he tried to run against Vladimir Putin for president of Russia.
Navalny talked openly to Stephen Sackur about his feelings. He discussed his relationship with Putin, how corruption is a big problem in Russia, and what he wants for the future of the country.
“I’ve always been in trouble with the law my whole life,” Navalny said in a scary conversation. “They fight me in this way. ”
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Alexei Navalny: who was he?
Alexei Navalny was born to factory owners in a village near Moscow and became a very well-known critic of Vladimir Putin.
His involvement in politics, where he looked into high-level corruption and tried to become mayor of Moscow, made him well-known. Many people thought he could be a danger to Mr Putin.
In August 2020, his disagreement with the Russian president became big news around the world.
He got very sick on a plane from Siberia to Moscow, so they flew him to Berlin while he was still unconscious.
His group said the Russian government made him sick, but the Russian government said it didn’t.
Doctors in Germany said he was poisoned with a Russian nerve gas called novichok. It took him a long time to get better.
Although it was dangerous, Mr. Navalny chose to go back to Russia. He was arrested, found guilty of charges he believed were unfair, and stayed in Russian prisons until his reported death today. -
Alexei Navalny, critic of Putin, dies in prison
Updates on the passing of Alexei Navalny are coming from the Kremlin. Moscow claims to be unaware of the reason behind the death of the individual who spoke against Putin.
Dmitry Peskov, who speaks for the government, also said that the prison service is checking everything they need to about his death.
The Russian state media site TASS says that Vladimir Putin has been told about his death.
Political Analyst says this is a terrible event and a bad mark on Russia’s reputation.
Alexei Navalny has been getting sicker and has been kept alone in a cell for most of the time since he was put in jail in Russia.
But she thinks it’s very surprising that his health got so bad that he died.
Lately, Mr Navalny has been seen in videos at court. He seemed happy and had a strong presence on social media.
“He’s a 47-year-old man and he’s been through a lot in prison, but we didn’t expect him to die so suddenly,” Magnay said.
“I’m just thinking about whether something specific happened to him instead of him getting worse slowly over time. ”
She said it was a big surprise, and he had just been transferred to the Russian prison where he was living.
“It is very sad for the idea of a free Russia, a Russian democracy, and the future of Russia, which is what Alexei Navalny dedicated his life to. ”
She says: “Even from jail, he has been speaking out for what is right in Russia and against the lack of freedom for his people. “More update on this story soon
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St Petersburg bomb suspect charged with terrorism
A suspect in the killing of pro-war Russian blogger Vladlen Tatarsky has been charged with terrorism, Russian officials say.
Darya Trepova was taken to a Moscow court on Tuesday after her arrest the previous day in St Petersburg.
The court ruled the 26-year-old should remain in custody until 2 June.
This comes as a little-known group, the National Republican Army, which has vowed to fight the Putin regime, claimed it carried out the attack.
Tatarsky, 40, was killed on Sunday in a blast in a cafe in St Petersburg where he was due to give a talk. More than 30 people were injured.
In a video released by the authorities on Monday – most likely recorded under duress – Ms Trepova was heard admitting she brought a statuette to the cafe that later blew up.
But she did not say she knew there would be an explosion, nor did she admit any further role.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which looks into major crime, said she had been charged under the criminal code with “a terrorist act carried out by an organised group causing intentional death” and the “illegal possession of explosive devices by an organised group”.
The committee added that it had evidence the attack was organised by Ukrainian security services with the help of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.
The foundation, which has released a series of exposés of corruption involving President Vladimir Putin’s entourage, said it was “very convenient” for the Kremlin to blame its critics when Navalny was due to go on trial soon for extremism.
In a separate development on Tuesday, the National Republican Army said it organised the bombing “without any help from foreign structures, let alone security services”. Its statement was carried on the Rospartizan (Russian Partisan) Telegram channel,
It added that the bombing was not aimed at peaceful citizens. Darya Trepova was “innocent” and a “hostage of the system”, it said.
The National Republican Army provided no evidence to back its claim.
The group was one of three Russian organisations that signed a declaration in Ukraine last August pledging to fight the government in Moscow.
Exiled former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev, who tweeted about the group’s statement, has previously claimed it was behind the murder of TV commentator Darya Dugina. The daughter of prominent ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin was blown up by a car bomb last year.
Until then the National Republican Army had never been mentioned publicly before.
Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) had been attending a meeting with supporters in the cafe as a guest speaker late on Sunday afternoon.
A video circulating on social media showed a young woman in a brown coat apparently entering the cafe with a cardboard box.
Images showed the box being placed on a table in the cafe before the woman sat down. Another video showed a statue being handed to Tatarsky.
Vladlen Tatarsky posted reports on the Telegram messaging service Tatarsky was a well-known blogger with more than half a million followers, and had a criminal past.
Born in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, he said he joined Russian-backed separatists when they released him from jail, where he was serving time for armed robbery.
He was part of a pro-Kremlin military blogger community that has taken on a relatively high-profile role since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
Tatarsky is among those who have gone so far as to criticise the Russian authorities, slamming the military and even President Vladimir Putin for setbacks on the battlefield.
But on Monday, he was awarded the posthumous Order of Courage by Mr Putin.