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Pjotr Sauer

Widow of Alexei Navalny says lab tests confirm he was poisoned in prison

Alexei Navalny with two guards standing behind him
Navalny’s allies have repeatedly accused the Kremlin of killing him. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that two foreign laboratories had confirmed her husband was poisoned, after tests on biological samples secretly smuggled out of Russia.

Navalny, 47, died suddenly on 16 February 2024, while being held in a jail about 40 miles (64km) north of the Arctic Circle, where he had been sentenced to decades in prison to be served in a “special regime”.

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