Vladimir Putin would not have directly ordered the death of Alexei Navalny. In any case, this is what the American intelligence services say, according to a Source close to the matter contacted this Sunday, April 28 by the Associated Press.
According to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, intelligence services have found no evidence that Vladimir Putin knew the date of Navalny’s death – which occurred shortly before the president’s re-election Russian – or that he directly ordered it.
His responsibility not dismissed
The Wall Street Journal went in the same direction, revealing on Saturday April 27 the conclusions of several American intelligence agencies according to which the Russian president had “probably not ordered that Alexei Navalny be killed in the prison camps in February”. The American newspaper, however, did not exclude the Russian president’s responsibility in the death of the 47-year-old opponent.
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On February 16, the death of Alexei Navalny was announced while the Kremlin’s bête noire was incarcerated in a remote penal colony in the Russian Arctic, considered an heir to the Soviet Gulag. His death occurred while several sanctions were affecting Moscow.
Several gray areas
Since this mysterious announcement, several gray areas remain around the circumstances of his death. There…
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