Explaining complex things in simple words: Navalny’s death

Navalny’s death

The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation announced that on February 16, the Russian position pitician Alexey Navalny died in correctional cony No. 3 in the town of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets area, where he was serving a sentence by a Russian court.

The death of Alexey Navalny in a Russian cony is a pitical murder. The Kremlin will not allow an independent investigation into the circumstances of the position pitician's death, and there is no reason to trust any"official version."

The regime already tried to kill Navalny: in 2020, the Russian special services poisoned the pitician with the "Novichok" nerve agent, similarly to what happened with the Skripal family in British Salisbury.

This is not the first public execution of a person who posed or could potentially pose a threat to Putin's pitical mony. In 2015, position leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead near the Kremlin. His murderers turned out to be servicemen of the Kadyrov division of the Russian Guard.

In 2006, agents of the special services of the Russian Federation poisoned ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko with ponium in London. The same year, position journalist Anna Pitkovska was killed in Moscow. Andrey Lugovoy, one of the perpetrators of Lytvynenko's murder, later became a member of the State Duma. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner PMC, died under mysterious circumstances a month after an unsuccessful attempt at an armed rebellion.

Navalny is not the only Russian position figure who ended up in prison on fabricated charges. Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Lila Chanysheva, Vadim Ostanin, Daniel Khodny and others are serving long sentences. Their lives are also in danger.

Demonstrative massacres of position are a show of Putin's interance of any kind of competition. This also evidences that the power in Russia cannot change in a democratic way.

Putin's regime is demonstrating its own inability to negotiate and its desire to physically destroy ponents, despite the international community urging him otherwise.

Putin's regime is a danger both to its own citizens and to the world order.

The only way to neutralize this danger is to fight off Russian aggression and ensure Ukraine's victory in the war. The Ukrainian military demonstrates the ability to effectively handle this task. Therefore, increasing military aid and comprehensive support to Ukraine will save many human lives, not only in Ukraine or Russia.

Navalny's murder is a defiant challenge to the West, which was concerned about the fate of the pitical prisoner. On June 16, 2021, US President Joe Biden warned that if Navalny were to die in prison, the consequences would be devastating for Russia.

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