Viktor Vorobyov, a member of the regional parliament in Russia’s Komi Republic, has asked state prosecutors to conduct an investigation into possible criminal negligence at the prison where opposition politician Alexey Navalny died on Friday. Meduza has obtained a copy of the request, which Vorobyov sent to the prosecutor’s office of Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where the prison is located.

Desislava Komarova / Startphoto.bg fans of the Bulgarian football club Levski from Sofia honored the memory of Alexei Navalny Banner "Freedom means freedom!" He was deployed on February 17 during the exit game “Levski” with the Pirin club from the city of Blagoevgrad. The match ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of Levski.

Human rights activists at the OVD-Info project are calling on Russians to contact the Federal Investigative Committee and demand that the authorities hand over Alexey Navalny’s body to his relatives. According to OVD-Info, demanding the release of Navalny’s body is safe and will not result in persecution by the police. Members of Alexey Navalny’s campaign team in exile say the Russian authorities refuse to turn over his body until state investigators finish additional tests.

Deputy of the Komi State Council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Viktor Vorobyov submitted a request to the prosecutor's office to conduct an investigation in connection with the death of Alexei Navalny. In his appeal (available to Meduza), he asks the prosecutor’s office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to check for negligence in correctional colony No. 3 “Polar Wolf” in the village of Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where Navalny was imprisoned.

The human rights project “OVD-Info” called for sending appeals to the Investigative Committee of Russia demanding that the body of the politician be returned to the relatives of Alexei Navalny. “We demand that the body of Alexei Navalny be returned to his family. Send appeals to the Investigative Committee - and demand this together with us!” - the human rights activists said in a statement.

The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a procedural review of Alexey Navalny’s death that gives the authorities 30 days before they’re legally required to give the politician’s body to his family, according to Eva Levenberg, a lawyer with the rights group OVD-Info. “Yesterday, we learned that the Investigative Committee launched a review, raising questions about why this was necessary. It was necessary so that they wouldn’t have to give up the body.

We are sending you a “Signal”. On February 16, Alexei Navalny died in the Polar Wolf colony. More precisely, he was killed. This is not a figure of speech by his comrades : regardless of what happened that day, the politician was deliberately kept in unbearable conditions (27 rooms in a punishment cell is torture). Propagandists are confusedly trying out ways not to call a murder a murder: a detached blood clot, “sudden death syndrome,” a Western conspiracy (examples: one , two ).

The procedural review of the Investigative Committee, launched on February 16 after the death of Alexei Navalny, allows the Russian authorities not to release the politician’s body to his relatives for 30 days. This was stated in an interview with the Agency by the coordinator for criminal cases of the human rights project “OVD-Info” Eva Levenberg. “Yesterday we learned that the Investigative Committee had begun an investigation, and there were questions about what this was all for.

Meduza’s Russian readers react to Alexey Navalny’s death Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / LETA On February 16, the world learned of Alexey Navalny’s death . As the news spread, his supporters turned out in cities across Russia and around the world to commemorate him. Meduza asked our Russian readers to share what Navalny’s life and work meant to them, and we received hundreds of letters in response. We’ve translated some of the most noteworthy replies into English. Lyubov St.

They see the last (and dead) hope for democracy in Russia and an example for their own politicians KAI Pfaffenbach / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Promotion of the memory of Alexei Navalny in Munich. February 16, 2024 After the death of Alexei Navalny, the largest Western publications, from the French newspaper Le Figaro to the American The Wall Street Journal, devoted the first lanes to him.

More than 24 hours after Alexey Navalny’s death was reported by Russian prison authorities, neither his relatives nor his lawyers have been able to find out the location of his body. Here’s what we know: Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service reported Navalny’s death on February 16.

Neither the missing demonstrations nor rallies in support of Ukraine were dispersed in Istanbul. But they did not let the action in memory of Navalny Emrah Garel / AP / Scanpix / Leta a man who came to honor Alexei Navalny's memory throws cloves into the water. Istanbul, February 16, 2024 On February 16, several dozen people gathered in Istanbul to honor the memory of the deceased Russian politician Alexei Navalny.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed 15 days of administrative arrest on three local residents who were detained on February 16 while laying flowers at the “Wall of Sorrow” in memory of Alexei Navalny, OVD-Info reports, citing a lawyer. Matvey Klestov, Elena Zaprudnova and Anna Kostyakova were placed under administrative arrest. They were arrested under the article of disobedience to police officers.

Do something in memory of him. Do not try to block emotions. And remember: we are near (at least in the form of this instruction) Grieve as you want if circumstances allow If you feel that you are burning according to a person who was not personally known , then this is normal . You can experience grief not only when you lose the one with whom you regularly communicated.

That the former prisoners of the IK-3 "Polar Wolf" think about the death of Navalny-and about the conditions in which he sat Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Colony No. 3, where Navalny was sitting. Harp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. December 29, 2023 There is a mat in this text. If this is unacceptable for you, please do not read it. Alexey Navalny died in a penal colony No. 3 in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on February 16, 2024. This was reported by the local department of the FSIN.