Overview

• Yulia Navalnaya says biological samples taken after Alexei Navalny’s death were transferred abroad and tested independently in two countries, with both laboratories concluding he was poisoned.
• She publicly accuses Vladimir Putin and Russian security services of responsibility and calls on the foreign laboratories to release their full reports.
• Navalnaya cites accounts from five employees at the Arctic penal colony describing convulsions, vomiting, and delayed medical attention before his death in February 2024.
• A Navalny ally posted photos said to show vomit and blood stains in his small cell, while Navalnaya says surveillance footage from the day has gone missing.
• Russian authorities previously attributed the death to a combination of medical conditions, and spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he did not know about Navalnaya’s declarations; no lab reports have been published or independently verified.