The anesthesiologist who had saved Navalny when he was poisoned in 2020, proceeded with estimates on what could be his cause of death.
Speaking to independent Russian media, the anesthesiologist who was part of the team of doctors who treated Navalny after his poisoning case, said that sudden cardiac death or “sudden death» – as he is popularly known – could be the cause of his death.
According to the assessment of the anesthesiologist, the “sudden death” could be a consequence of the poisoning Navalny suffered in August 2020 with a nerve agent.
However, he emphasized at the same time that the circumstances of death described in the prison’s official announcement, namely that Navalny first felt bad and then collapsed, do not match the clinical picture presented by patients who “leave” due to sudden cardiac death.
“We will keep his vision alive”
Alexei Navalny’s team will keep alive his vision for change in Russia, his ally and spokesman Kira Yarmish said today in an interview with Reuters.
“We lost our leader, but we didn’t lose our ideas and beliefs,” Jarmis said, speaking via Zoom, from an undisclosed location. The group, he added, held Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible for what it called Navalny’s murder. She did not provide any evidence to support her claim, but recalled that in 2020 Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent in an assassination attempt, according to Western doctors.
At the time, Putin denied that the Russian state tried to kill Navalny, saying he would have “finished the job” if he really wanted to kill him. “We knew there was danger, Alexei knew it too. And yesterday they murdered him, as they planned three years ago,” Jarmis said.
The prison service has not released a cause of death, only that Navalny collapsed after a walk. Jarmis called on Western leaders to “put maximum pressure” on Putin over Navalny’s death and not to negotiate with him.
As he said, Navalny was the symbol of hope that one day Russia “would become a normal democratic country, with fair elections, independent courts, free press (…) a peaceful and prosperous country.”
“Of course, everyone is devastated. Alexei was a man who collected all these ideas and fought for them. That’s why I’m sure his legacy won’t die with him and that people will come back to these ideas,” he concluded.
More than 300 arrests in the protests
At least 340 people were arrested today in 30 Russian cities at events held in memory of Alexei Navalny, according to the human rights group OVD-Info.
It is the biggest wave of arrests in political protests in Russia since September 2022, when more than 1,300 people were arrested in protests against Moscow’s “partial conscription” for its invasion of Ukraine.
OVD-Info reported that the largest number of arrests today took place in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where the pro-Navalni movement has traditionally been strong, with 74 and 49 detainees, respectively, as of 16:36 Greek time today.
One of the many arrests made in Moscow (REUTERS/Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Footage from Reuters in St Petersburg showed dozens gathering next to a memorial to victims of repression. Some laid flowers and left candles, while some sang hymns and others hugged each other, in tears. A Reuters reporter at the scene said about 30 people were arrested at the scene.
OVD-Info also reported isolated arrests in smaller cities across Russia, from the border city of Belgorod, where seven were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Thursday, to Vorkuta, in the Arctic once home to a Stalin-era Gulag labor camp
Reuters was unable to verify the group’s accounts, and Russian police declined to comment.
The G7 Foreign Ministers request clarification of the circumstances of Alexei Navalny’s death
The foreign ministers of the G7 member states today called on Russia to fully clarify the circumstances of Alexei Navalny’s death.
The ministers “expressed their outrage at the death in prison of Alexei Navalny, who was unjustly convicted of legitimate political activities and his fight against corruption,” said a joint statement issued by Italy, which currently holds the G7 presidency. .
The foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US met today in Munich. At the start of their meeting they observed a minute’s silence to honor the Russian opposition leader, who died in prison yesterday.
SOURCE: APE-ME
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