Alexei Navalny: Lab tests show Russian opposition leader was poisoned, his wife says

Tests by two foreign laboratories show that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned before his death in an Arctic penal colony last year, his wife said Wednesday

Tests by two foreign laboratories show that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned before his death in an Arctic penal colony last year, his wife said Wednesday.

Russia’s prison service reported in Feb. 2024 that Navalny died after feeling unwell following a walk around the high-security facility in a remote town above the Arctic Circle where he was serving a combined 30 ½-year jail sentence.

He was 47.

His wife, Yuliya Navalnaya, has since taken up the mantle of his struggle against official corruption and President Vladimir Putin’s government that saw him survive several poisoning attempts.

She posted a video on X early Wednesday in which she said that she had managed to have lab tests conducted in a bid to confirm the suspicion he died at the hands of the Kremlin.