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More than likely he did that to make them mad, just like the US president intentionally makes American mad. It is an arrogant power thing.
The Russian authorities have issued sparse details of what they said happened to Aleksei A. Navalny, the opposition leader who they announced had died in prison.
These claims could not be independently verified. But a former mid-ranking Russian prison official said they should be treated with caution. Anna Karetnikova, who oversaw pretrial detention centers in the Moscow region, said in her experience “blood clotting” was a common shorthand for lethal cases that prison authorities had no intention of investigating.
originally posted by: RussianTroll
a reply to: BernnieJGato
Nobody hid the body. It was issued to Navalny’s mother, who blamed his wife for her son’s death and stripped her of her son’s surname.
Russian authorities told Alexei Navalny’s mother her son would be buried in the Arctic penal colony where he died unless she agreed within three hours to a secret funeral, Navalny’s spokesperson has said.
Kira Yarmysh tweeted on Friday: “An investigator called Alexei’s mother an hour ago and gave her an ultimatum. Either she agrees to a secret funeral without a public farewell within three hours, or Alexei will be buried in the colony.”
Yarmysh said Lyudmila Navalnaya refused to negotiate with the investigators because “they have no authority to decide how and where to bury her son”.
“She demands that they comply with the law, which obliges investigators to hand over the body within two days of determining the causes of death,” Yarmysh wrote.
On Thursday, Navalnaya said she had been shown the body of her son but that the authorities were “blackmailing” her into burying him in a secret ceremony without mourners.
Navalnaya said the investigators had threatened to let her son’s body rot unless he was buried in secret. She said one investigator had told her: “Time’s not on your side. Corpses decompose.”
Navalnaya was made to sign a death certificate saying her son died of natural causes.
Nobody hid the body. It was issued to Navalny’s mother, who blamed his wife for her son’s death and stripped her of her son’s surname.
Navalny’s mother herself wrote this on her social networks.
The mother of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday said she had been given access to her son’s body but officials would not release it unless she agreed to a “secret funeral.”
Navalnaya said investigators were "blackmailing" her by telling her that if she didn't agree to a secret funeral, they would "do something with the body."
“I’m recording this video because they started threatening me.” Navalnaya said, adding that an official told her: “Time is not on your side, corpses decompose.”
originally posted by: RussianTroll
originally posted by: YouSir
originally posted by: CarlLaFong
originally posted by: Kurokage
Maybe one day this will be seen as a big step forward towards the freeing of the Russian people from Putin's dictatorship.
Let's hope so.
Unfortunately, I remember hoping the same thing during the Tiananmen Square protest.
Ummm...or the January 6th insurrection...
YouSir
But, unlike January 6, Putin did not disperse anyone))))
originally posted by: alldaylong
originally posted by: gortex
More video showing the numbers of people who risked arrest to show their respects today.
Navalny did not die in vain. The decent people of Russia need this to be their catalyst for change.
originally posted by: RussianTroll
a reply to: BernnieJGato
Nobody hid the body. It was issued to Navalny’s mother, who blamed his wife for her son’s death and stripped her of her son’s surname.
Navalny’s mother herself wrote this on her social networks. And the mother also doesn’t care about the opinions of Western Soros.
Navalny is a Russian citizen. And Russia doesn’t give a damn about the wishes of Western intelligence services, which themselves never allow Russia into international investigations of everything and everyone.
originally posted by: UpIsNowDown2
a reply to: Kurokage
Can i just add all are welcome to this conversation, including those from Russia, there are many threads started on ATS at the moment where it is implied that the British must refrain from posting
ATS welomes conversation