Report: Navalny's Body Found Bruised in Arctic Morgue

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Facts

  • Russian opposition media Novaya Gazeta Europe has reported, quoting an unidentified paramedic, that the body of recently deceased Alexei Navalny had bruises on the head and chest when he was allegedly brought to the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital for an autopsy.1
  • According to the self-described experienced paramedic, these injuries would be consistent with those from attempts to hold down a convulsing individual as well as from an indirect cardiac massage.2
  • Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service announced on Friday that Navalny had died in a penal colony after feeling sick and fainting after a walk, adding that medics promptly arrived to revive him but failed.3
  • The outlet claimed that Navalny's mother and her lawyers were denied access to the morgue on Monday, with staff refusing to confirm whether Navalny's body was there. Some reports suggest that his corpse was transferred from a morgue in Labytnangi to Salekhard on Saturday.4
  • Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Western accusations against Vladimir Putin and his government 'rabid' and 'totally inadmissible,' as a probe is underway and no information has been released so far.3
  • Meanwhile, EU foreign ministers issued a joint statement Monday after meeting with his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, in Brussels, calling for an independent international probe and claiming that Putin and other Russian authorities are ultimately responsible for Navalny's death.5

Sources: 1The Telegraph, 2New York Post, 3tass.com, 4Novaya Gazeta Europe and 5Reuters.

Narratives

  • Pro-establishment narrative, as provided by UKRINFORM. As more information emerges, the world will move from assuming this was an assassination to knowing it was. Putin, who chose to commit this murder around the time of the NATO security conference, has a long history of destroying all opposition. He won't be stopped until someone in his own orbit or from outside of Russia decides to rid the world of his dictatorial regime.
  • Pro-Russia narrative, as provided by RT International. The West has been pushing unproven propaganda about Navalny since the so-called assassination attempt in 2020. Now, with their self-proclaimed 'opposition leader' having died of unknown causes, the anti-Russia powers that be will again spread unfounded rhetoric and accusations. The autopsy hasn't even been conducted and Western powers are already drawing fallacious conclusions.

Predictions