Overview
- The French Foreign Ministry said it reviewed conclusions from two Western labs indicating Alexey Navalny could have been poisoned and called for a comprehensive investigation while holding Russian authorities responsible for his death.
- The laboratories have not been identified publicly and have not released their analyses, which Navalnaya says remain withheld for political reasons as she presses for publication.
- Supporters circulated photos from Navalny’s cell showing vomit with traces of blood and pointed to missing surveillance recordings from that day as grounds for transparency.
- Opposition figure Vladimir Kara‑Murza alleged that intelligence arrangements are delaying publication, citing his own case in which U.S. investigators withheld the poison’s name under a national security statute.
- Germany’s Foreign Ministry said it has no knowledge of any postmortem analyses of Navalny’s biomaterials in German state or military laboratories.