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Lithuania points finger at Russia for attack on Navalny aide

Police cordoned off the road where the attack happened [Andrius Sytas/Reuters]

Lithuania has accused Russia of being behind an attack on exiled Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, a close ally of Alexey Navalny, who died last month in a remote penal colony.

Gitanas Nauseda, president of the small Baltic nation, said on Wednesday that the overnight attack on Volkov, perpetrated outside the dissident’s home in Vilnius by a hammer-wielding assailant, was clearly premeditated and ties in with other provocations against Lithuania.

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