17-02-2024, 02:29 PM
What a coincidence...again... 
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/35018...tin-critic
"Alexei Navalny: The final weeks and death of RussiaÔÇÖs leading Putin critic
The Russian opposition leader died at a prison inside the Arctic Circle where he was serving a 19-year sentence.
The facility, often called the ÔÇ£Polar WolfÔÇØ jail, is officially known as the IK-3 penal colony and is located at Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1900km northeast of Moscow.
His death was announced by RussiaÔÇÖs Federal Penitentiary Service, which said the 47-year-old lost consciousness on Friday after taking a walk in the prison where he was moved last December, and when for several weeks his friends did not know where he was.
After his collapse ÔÇô just one day after he appeared in court and was making jokes ÔÇô an ambulance crew tried to resuscitate him for more than half an hour, officials at Labytnang City Hospital told Russian state-run media RIA Novosti.
ÔÇ£The doctors who arrived at the scene continued the resuscitation measures that the prisonÔÇÖs doctors had already provided,ÔÇØ RIA quoted an official as saying.
ÔÇ£They carried them out for more than half an hour. However, the patient died. The ambulance team reached the prison in less than seven minutes, and doctors reached the patient two minutes later.ÔÇØ
The Russian prison service said Navalny ÔÇ£felt unwell after a walkÔÇØ and ÔÇ£almost immediatelyÔÇØ lost consciousness. It said it was investigating his ÔÇ£sudden deathÔÇØ.
For some time his supporters and family declined to believe the news, pointing out there had been earlier such reports that proved false.
His long-time chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, wrote on Twitter: ÔÇ£We have no reason to believe state propaganda. If this is true, then not ÔÇÿNavalny diedÔÇÖ, but ÔÇÿPutin killed NavalnyÔÇÖ and only that. But I donÔÇÖt trust them one penny.ÔÇØ
The Kremlin said Vladimir Putin had been informed.
It later emerged that he was being held in a place where the temperatures drop as low as -30C.
He was often held in solitary confinement ÔÇô more than 300 days in total, according to his supporters ÔÇô and last month his spokesperson said he had been sent again to a so-called ÔÇ£punishment cellÔÇØ for 10 days for ÔÇ£incorrectly introducing himselfÔÇØ to a guard.
Navalny later said: ÔÇ£The idea that Putin was pleased enough that he had put me in a barracks in the Far North that they would stop throwing me in solitary confinement was ... naive.ÔÇØ
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/35018...tin-critic
"Alexei Navalny: The final weeks and death of RussiaÔÇÖs leading Putin critic
The Russian opposition leader died at a prison inside the Arctic Circle where he was serving a 19-year sentence.
The facility, often called the ÔÇ£Polar WolfÔÇØ jail, is officially known as the IK-3 penal colony and is located at Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1900km northeast of Moscow.
His death was announced by RussiaÔÇÖs Federal Penitentiary Service, which said the 47-year-old lost consciousness on Friday after taking a walk in the prison where he was moved last December, and when for several weeks his friends did not know where he was.
After his collapse ÔÇô just one day after he appeared in court and was making jokes ÔÇô an ambulance crew tried to resuscitate him for more than half an hour, officials at Labytnang City Hospital told Russian state-run media RIA Novosti.
ÔÇ£The doctors who arrived at the scene continued the resuscitation measures that the prisonÔÇÖs doctors had already provided,ÔÇØ RIA quoted an official as saying.
ÔÇ£They carried them out for more than half an hour. However, the patient died. The ambulance team reached the prison in less than seven minutes, and doctors reached the patient two minutes later.ÔÇØ
The Russian prison service said Navalny ÔÇ£felt unwell after a walkÔÇØ and ÔÇ£almost immediatelyÔÇØ lost consciousness. It said it was investigating his ÔÇ£sudden deathÔÇØ.
For some time his supporters and family declined to believe the news, pointing out there had been earlier such reports that proved false.
His long-time chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, wrote on Twitter: ÔÇ£We have no reason to believe state propaganda. If this is true, then not ÔÇÿNavalny diedÔÇÖ, but ÔÇÿPutin killed NavalnyÔÇÖ and only that. But I donÔÇÖt trust them one penny.ÔÇØ
The Kremlin said Vladimir Putin had been informed.
It later emerged that he was being held in a place where the temperatures drop as low as -30C.
He was often held in solitary confinement ÔÇô more than 300 days in total, according to his supporters ÔÇô and last month his spokesperson said he had been sent again to a so-called ÔÇ£punishment cellÔÇØ for 10 days for ÔÇ£incorrectly introducing himselfÔÇØ to a guard.
Navalny later said: ÔÇ£The idea that Putin was pleased enough that he had put me in a barracks in the Far North that they would stop throwing me in solitary confinement was ... naive.ÔÇØ
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)