Overview

• Yulia Navalnaya announced that tests conducted separately in two countries on samples taken after Alexei Navalny’s death indicated poisoning, though no toxin has been publicly identified.
• She urged the laboratories to release their full reports, saying the conclusions are of public interest and should be made available.
• The Kremlin’s spokesperson said officials had no knowledge of the laboratory claims, while Russian authorities have maintained Navalny died from an arrhythmia.
• A court in Salekhard recently rejected a request from Navalny’s mother to open a criminal investigation into his death.
• Navalny previously survived a confirmed poisoning in 2020 treated in Berlin, and his family and several Western governments have long described his 2024 death as an assassination.