Putin has ultimately seen his dream come true: main political opponent died in ordeal.

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has announced that two independent laboratories in different countries have found that her late husband was poisoned prior to his death in prison. The findings were based on biological material that was reportedly smuggled out of Russia in 2024.

Navalny died on 16 February 2024, aged 47, while serving a 19-year sentence at an Arctic prison named IK-3, in the Yamalo-Nenets Region. According to Russian officials, he fell ill during a walk, lost consciousness, and died due to a combination of diseases, including heart arrhythmia.

Mrs. Navalnaya (pictured below) strongly disputes that version.

In a video posted on social media platform X, she said: “These labs in two different countries reached the same conclusion: Alexei was killed. More specifically, he was poisoned.”

She called for transparency, urging the laboratories - which she did not name - to release their full reports, emphasizing that the results are of “public importance and must be published.”

Navalnaya also raised concerns about the circumstances of her husband’s final hours.

She said there was no CCTV footage available from the last day of his life — even though he was under constant video monitoring — and that photos show a cell with vomit on the floor, which she pointed out as part of the evidence.

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Asked for comment the allegation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said denied any knowledge about the allegation.

Russian authorities have repeatedly dismissed the poisoning allegations. They maintain that Navalny died of natural causes related to multiple illnesses.

This is not the first poisoning case involving Navalny: in 2020, he was poisoned with Novichok, a bioweapon, while in Siberia, and was flown to Germany for treatment, where he eventually recovered.

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Seeing his political opponents die in violence and ordeal brings satisfaction to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. The most notorious victims are journalist Anna Akhmatova (gunshot), FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko (radioactive poisoning), politician Boris Nemtsov (gunshot), critical businessman Boris Berezovsky (hanging), and now Alexey Navalny (poisoning), dissidents say.

The latest allegations deepen already high tensions over Navalny’s death, raising questions about accountability and the role of the Russian state. Navalnaya frames the lab results as revealing “the truth,” however inconvenient, and insists that silence or delay in releasing full evidence only enables impunity.

Sources: TheGuardian, Reuters, BBC