“Alexey Navalny is dying, in his condition it’s a matter of days.” This was stated by the spokesperson for Vladimir Putin’s opponent, Kira Yarmish. Navalny is in his third week of hunger strike, still locked up within the walls of the Pokrov penal colony. Yaroslav Ashikhmin, doctor of Putin’s 44-year-old opponent in prison, claims that his physical condition is rapidly deteriorating and he could die at any moment.
In the months he spent in the Pokrov penal colony, not far from Moscow, Alexey Navalny lost 15 kilos and his blood tests revealed extremely high levels of potassium, the result of liver malfunction, which could cause cardiac arrest. “Our patient could die at any time,” Ashikhmin wrote in a Facebook post.
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A “totally unfair” and “inappropriate” situation for US President Joe Biden. The Moscow prosecutor’s office asked the competent court to brand Navalny organizations as “extremist entities”, making them de facto illegal.
Alexey Navalny is one of the best-known opponents of Russian President Putin. His name rebounded in media around the world on August 20 when he fell ill while flying over Siberia. Suspecting poisoning, his wife refused treatment in Russia and had her husband transferred to a hospital in Berlin. After 32 days of hospitalization, 24 of which spent in intensive care, Navalny was discharged at the end of September.
The tests certified the poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok of which the opposition leader directly accused Putin. Moscow has always denied any involvement. On 17 January Navalny returned to Moscow but on his arrival he found the agents to welcome him and was taken directly to prison. He has remained here in recent months also following a court sentence of two years and eight months of detention. For the Navalny Tribunal he allegedly violated the terms of probation in relation to a conviction for embezzlement dating back to 2014. The violation occurred due to the decision to be hospitalized in Russia after the poisoning.