Posted on 03/05/2024 1:09:09 PM PST by McGruff
Russia's spymaster said Tuesday that opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of natural causes, a statement that appeared to reflect the Kremlin's efforts to assuage international outrage over the death of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe.
Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, the top spy agency known under its Russian acronym SVR, made the statement in an interview broadcast by Russian state television. He didn't name the cause of Navalny's death in a remote Arctic penal colony or give any other details.
“Sooner or later life ends and people die,” he said. “Navalny has died of natural causes.”
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“Russian spymaster said opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of natural causes”
Good hear as that agrees with Ukraine’s assessment too.
“He didn’t name the cause of Navalny’s death in a remote Arctic penal colony”
Remote Arctic penal colony says it all.
I mean, who in their right mind could suspect such a thing? It isn’t like they tried to murder him previously or anything, and certainly political prisoners in the Gulags only get the most humane treatment...
More proof that Russia lies all the time
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