The negotiations on the exchange of Alexei Navalny were frozen for six months due to the fact that the German Foreign Minister Annalen Berobok did not approve of the US plan. This is stated in the investigation of Spiegel by the anniversary of the murder of the opposition.

On February 16, commemorative actions took place on the anniversary of the death of Alexei Navalny in hundreds of cities around the world. In published by associates of the Navalny list of memorial events, there are countries from Australia to the USA. So, the evening of memory was held in the central botanical garden of Sydney. Memorial actions took place in many European cities, including Milan, Paris, Lisbon, Nice, Valencia, Belgrade and others.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained a man who tried to stick a sheet with a quote about the triumph of evil at the monument to the memory of the victims of political repression on the Voskresenskaya embankment. It is reported by "Paper".

In Yekaterinburg, the security forces tore off the evening of letters by political prisoners. This was reported in the telegram channel of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Libertarian Party of Russia (LPR). The event was organized together with the unregistered party Ekaterina Duntsova "Dawn". It's My City and Sota wrote that there was no connection with the detainees. Later, the OVD-Info project found out that the participants in the evening of letters were delivered to the police department No. 9.

In the Belgorod region, the Ukrainian drone attacked a car on the two -looking highway - Urazovo. According to the local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, a woman died. The official adds that the other woman who was driving the car received a barotaurum and was hospitalized in a hospital in Valuyki. Gladkov later wrote in his telegram channel about another attack of a car drone-at the entrance to the village of Grafovka. There, according to him, your men died.

In St. Petersburg, the victims of political repressions, as well as from Solovetsky stone, carried the flowers entered in memory of Alexei Navalny, reports “Paper”. So, a woman in overalls removed the flowers brought to the monument to the victims of political repression on the Voskresenskaya embankment. The same situation is observed in Solovetsky stone, there the flowers brought by Petersburgers threw flowers into the urns located nearby.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow received the case of an “unwanted organization” (part 3 of Article 281.4 of the Criminal Code) against the editor -in -chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, Kirill Martynov. Information about this "Mediazona" was found on the website of the capital's ships. The criminal case against Martynov became known in September, in November the journalist was arrested in absentia .

In Novosibirsk, the police detained six people who brought flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny to the monument to the victims of political repression. This was reported by the OVD-Info project. The detainees were taken to the police department of the Oktyabrsky district of Novosibirsk. According to a telegram channel of independent deputies of a local city council, against two activists, security officials used force.

The US Ambassador to Russia Lynn Tracy laid flowers to the grave of Alexei Navalny. It is reported by "Medusa". After it, the British ambassador Nigel Casey , Australian Ambassador John Giring and Spain Ambassador Ricardo Martinez Vasquez also arrived at the Borisov cemetery. Sotavision, citing their correspondent, writes that the police freely misses those who want to put flowers on the grave of a politician killed a year ago. At the same time, employees of the ED center are shot on camera.

In Nikolaev, a 64-year-old man suffered as a result of the attack of Russian drones. This was reported by the head of the local regional administration Vitaly Kim. The region’s authorities add that as a result of the fall of the drone wreckage, five apartment buildings, four stores, food institutions, office premises and an object of critical infrastructure were damaged. In total, according to the Ukrainian military, 95 out of 143 drones launched by Russia, the country's air defense forces.

Art: Maria Tolstova / Mediazona While incarcerated, Alexei Navalny wrote extensively to journalists, politicians, scientists, activists, and people from all walks of life across the globe. Between the summer of 2022 and autumn 2023, when he was held in the IK-6 high-security prison near Vladimir, this was relatively straightforward thanks to Russia’s prison e-mail service, FSIN-Letter, which allowed for correspondence to be exchanged within days.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone Alexey Navalny conducted an extensive correspondence in prison. It was written by journalists, politicians, scientists, activists, a variety of people from all over Russia and the whole world. From the summer of 2022 to the fall of 2023, when Navalny was sitting in the Vladimir IK-6 strict regime, it was easier because the FSIN-Pop-Listen electronic system worked there, which allows you to exchange correspondence for several days.

Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazon On February 16, 2024, a politician Alexei Navalny was killed in a special regime colony in the Harp polar village. According to the official version, the cause of the death of a 47-year-old oppositionist was heart problems: he felt ill after a walk and the resuscitation did not help.