Angelo Carconi / EPA / Scanpix / Leta in Rome on the evening of February 19 took place in memory of Alexei Navalny. Hundreds of people with candles came to Piazza del Campidolo, the central square of the Capitol Hill. Some participants held posters accusing Vladimir Putin of killing Navalny. Memory shares are held in the cities of Europe from February 16, when it became known about the death of Navalny.

Journalists of Mediazons learned details about cars that probably transported Alexei Navalny’s body to Salekhard after his death in a colony in the village of Harp. The day before, journalists published a video recording of the road chamber, which shows a motorcade from cars following on the night of February 17 on the way from the city of Labytnangi, closest to the colony, where Navalny was, towards Salekhard.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said Russia must “allow an independent and transparent international investigation into the circumstances of the sudden death” of Alexei Navalny. In a statement published on the website of the European Council, Borrell said that responsibility for Navalny's death lies with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian authorities.

Two days after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops, Russian forces have completed their takeover of Avdiivka. According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, its soldiers took “full control” of Avdiivka’s coke plant on February 19, eliminating the town’s last pocket of resistance. Located near the city of Donetsk, Avdiivka has been a frontline town since 2014 — and it continued to serve as a Ukrainian stronghold long after Russia began its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Lawyer Mikhail Biryukov told Facebook that he visited the politician Ilya Yashin. “In IK-3, Ilya Yashin met me with the words:“ Tell me that this is not true ”... Alexey Navalny, like Boris Nemtsov, were his close friends and associates. And our common pain is a hundred more for him, ”Biryukov wrote. According to him, Yashin does not complain about the health and conditions of detention, he has no conflicts with the administration and cellmates.

The Civil Initiative party has notified the Moscow mayor's office that it plans to hold a demonstration in memory of Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny on March 2. A copy of the appeal was published by the party's leader, Andrei Nechayev. The party plans to hold a march from Strastnoy Boulevard to Sakharov Avenue. The declared number of participants is up to 50 thousand people. The gathering of demonstrators is scheduled for 13:00.

Maxim Kuzminov, a Russian military pilot who defected to Ukraine by flying an Mi-8 helicopter over the border in August, has reportedly been found dead in Spain. The first mention of Kuzminov’s death in the media came from the Spanish Telegram channel Eureka News, which cited sources from Spain’s Civil Guard, though the post was later deleted.

Belarusian writer and Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich on the implications of Navalny’s death SOPA Images Limited / Alamy / Vida Press As the news that Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny had died in prison on Friday spread, thousands of people around the world expressed their grief at his loss and their anger at the Russian authorities. Now, many are trying to understand the broader implications of his death.

Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who landed a Russian military Mi-8 helicopter at one of the air bases in Ukraine, was found dead in Spain. this was the first to report The Spanish telegram channel Eureka news attention to the post , citing sources in the Spanish Civil Guard. TASS drew . After Russian media wrote about this, Eureka news deleted publications about Kuzminov.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In addition to Navalny, thousands of political prisoners remain in Russian prisons - and they are very scary for them. Now they are even more dangerous? How can they help them? On February 16, the FSIN Office for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that Alexei Navalny died in a local colony. On February 17, Navalny's associates confirmed his death.

Former 45th US President Donald Trump first mentioned the name of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after the Federal Penitentiary Service reported that he died in prison on February 16. At the same time, Trump did not directly comment on Navalny’s death and did not mention the Russian leadership, but spoke about US domestic political problems. “The sudden death of Alexei Navalny made me more and more aware of what is happening in our country.

Bidzina Ivanishvili’s latest political comeback and the law of diminishing returns Story by Will Neal for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . Georgia is set to hold both presidential and parliamentary elections this autumn, and the run-up to the vote has been eventful already. Late last December, Bidzina Ivanishvili announced that he would officially return to politics once again after years of exerting his influence behind the scenes.

Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur on the threat of Putin’s Russia and preparing for the worst Kiur Kaasik / Delfi Meedia / Scanpix / LETA Two years ago, Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine had a dual impact on how European countries were thinking about their own security.

Russia’s Investigative Committee said that the body of Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has been sent for a “chemical examination,” reports Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh: The investigators told the lawyers and Alexey’s mother that they would not give them the body. The body will be under some sort of “chemical examination” for another 14 days.

Representatives of the Investigative Committee of Russia informed the lawyers and mother of Alexei Navalny that the body of Alexei Navalny, who died in the colony, was sent for a chemical examination, which would last 14 days. Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh spoke about this. The Federal Penitentiary Service reported on February 16 that Russian politician Alexei Navalny died in a colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.