(EFE).- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly this Friday in the Arctic prison where he had been since last December, according to the Russian penitentiary services.
“The necessary resuscitation procedures were performed, which did not give any results. The emergency doctors confirmed the death of the condemned man. The causes of death are being established,” says the official statement on the death of Navalni, 47 years old.
The source explained that this Friday, after taking a walk in the IK-3 penitentiary in the town of Jarp (Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district), the opposition politician “felt bad”, after which he “lost consciousness.”
He highlighted that emergency medical teams immediately went to the prison to treat Navalni, who was serving almost 30 years in prison for various crimes attributed to him by the Kremlin.
Navalni’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmish, assured that the opponent’s co-religionists do not yet have confirmation of the death.
Subsequently, the penitentiary services announced the dispatch of a commission of prison officials and doctors from their central apparatus in Moscow to clarify the causes and circumstances surrounding the death of the inmate.
Navalny’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmish, assured that the opponent’s co-religionists do not yet have confirmation of the death and that his lawyer will leave shortly for Yamalo-Nenets.
For its part, the Kremlin says it has no information about the causes of the opponent’s death, the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, announced this Friday, minutes after the news of the politician’s death was known.
“The doctors have to clarify it,” Peskov said, quoted by the TASS agency, “after the prison services confirmed the death.
Peskov added that the Russian Penitentiary Service is now in charge of carrying out the necessary checks in these cases, which does not require issuing “additional instructions.” “There’s a set of rules they go by,” he said.
At the same time, Peskov confirmed that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, whom Navalny accused of ordering his poisoning in 2020, was informed about the opponent’s death.
The Russian Investigative Committee reported today that it has launched an investigation, “in accordance with the procedure established by law” to establish the circumstances of the death.
After hearing the news, reactions from leaders around the world have begun to appear. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg assured that Russia has “very serious questions to answer” about Navalni’s death.
The French Foreign Minister, Stéphane Séjourné, stated that the opponent “has paid with his life for his resistance to a system of oppression”, that of Vladimir Putin’s “regime”. The politician stated that the event “reminds us of the reality of Vladimir Putin’s regime.”
“Combatants die. But the fight for freedom never ends”
For his part, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, stated that “the European Union considers the Russian regime solely responsible for this tragic death.” “Combatants die. But the fight for freedom never ends,” he said.
Last December, Navalny was transferred from a prison in the Vladimir region, less than 200 kilometers from Moscow, to a prison in the Arctic Circle, near the Ural mountain range.
The town of Jarp, which has about 6,000 inhabitants, is located almost 2,000 kilometers from Moscow or about 45 hours by train from the Russian capital.
Jarp is less than 50 kilometers from Salekhard, the administrative capital of this territory that has an area larger than that of France, but is populated by only half a million inhabitants.
The prison is named after the Polar Wolf and is considered one of the most distant prisons from civilization in all of Russia.
According to one of his collaborators in exile, Ivan Zhdanov, the prison is named after the Polar Wolf and is considered one of the most distant prisons from civilization in all of Russia.
Navalny, who returned to Russia in 2021 after being poisoned the previous year, according to his allies, by the Federal Security Service, was transferred after announcing a campaign against the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in power since 2000.
The process of transferring to another prison, known as etapirovaniecan last for weeks, during which time the prisoner is usually incommunicado.
Both the United States, the European Union (EU) and Amnesty International (AI) expressed their concern about the fate of Navalny, the Kremlin’s number one enemy.
On December 7, Navalny asked from prison to vote against Putin in the March 17, 2024 elections.
Navalny also announced the launch of a website (neputin.org) that asked Russians to support any candidate for the presidency, except Putin.
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