Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny’s Disappearance Raises Fears of Assassination by Putin’s Regime

47-year-old Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russia’s opposition party “Russia of the Future”, has not been seen since December 5. Last year he was imprisoned north-east of Moscow, but it has emerged that Navalny is no longer there.

– We are worried about his life. He is in the hands of the same people who tried to kill him earlier. If they once got permission to kill Navalny, do they have a new one now or is the previous one still valid? Navalny’s life is constantly at high risk, says Maria Pevchikh, the head of Navalny’s anti-corruption organization ACF.

Navalny was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in August 2020, which he claimed was arranged by the Kremlin. He was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for extremism and fraud.

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Fear of assassination

President Vladimir Putin is facing an election in March 2024 that he is almost certain to win, which will give him six more years in power, writes The Sun. Navalny’s supporters believe that he has been transferred to a more brutal prison and therefore has not been able to participate in any elections.

Navalny has previously claimed that Putin is desperate to silence him, after the Kremlin critic and his team published a list of 200 oligarchs accused of being “directly responsible for the aggressive war against Ukraine”.

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The list of 200 names was part of a larger “list of 6,000” Putin accomplices and Russian war aides that outraged the heads of state.

– The Kremlin is really furious about our work to promote the ‘List of 6000’, the list of oligarchs, bribers and warmongers against whom sanctions must be introduced. The people on the list are very concerned and are demanding that action be taken to get the ACF (and me personally) to “back off,” Navalny said at the time.

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In a video interview with him earlier this year, it was revealed that he suffers from stomach pains and cramps, and that he has lost 10 kg in less than a month, which should have caused fears of a slow poisoning.

He is also said to have been told that he faces a new trial on terrorism charges which could lead to life in prison.

Poisoned and shot

Several of Putin’s critics have already suffered fatal fates

Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium in a London hotel in 2006.

In the same year, the 48-year-old journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had published articles about human rights violations, was shot dead in the street outside her apartment in Moscow.

The founder of Russia Today, now known as RT, Mikhail Lesin, was found dead in a Washington DC hotel room in 2015.

2023-12-19 14:48:56
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