Alexei Navalny was a 'legitimate opponent' to Putin's reign, according to Bryan Suits, which made the timing of his death all the more peculiar.
A worker paints over graffiti of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in Saint Petersburg on April 28, 2021. The inscription reads:"The hero of the new times."
President Joe Biden stated he was both “not surprised and outraged” after the news broke, placing the blame squarely on Putin.“It’s prophetic because what’s really interesting is that no one had to tell him, and this is before the Novichok poisoning which was supposed to kill them, or was it?”In August 2020, Navalny was hospitalized after falling ill and losing consciousness while on a domestic flight over Siberia.
Novichok has been used previously toward those opposing Putin’s regime. Sergei Skripal was given Novichok in a botched assassination attempt in 2018. Skripal was a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence agencies. After spending weeks in the hospital, he and his daughter, who was also poisoned, fully recovered.“He was on video remote appearing for a court appearance,” Suits said. “He made the state prosecutor laugh. He looked in good spirits. He was healthy.
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