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Russia’s response comes two years to the day that Navalny died in a Siberian penal colony, with the United Kingdom and some European allies using the anniversary to announce findings from an analysis of samples from his body after his family’s prolonged fight to reclaim it following his death.
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Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2026
The mother of deceased Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said Monday she felt vindicated by a European assessment that her son died of poisoning in a remote penal colony.
—CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in the Arctic penal colony in February 2024.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
He had been imprisoned in an Arctic penal colony since returning to Russia in 2021 from Germany, where he had been treated after being poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 14 Feb. 2026
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Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2026
The mother of deceased Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said Monday she felt vindicated by a European assessment that her son died of poisoning in a remote penal colony.
—CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in the Arctic penal colony in February 2024.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
He had been imprisoned in an Arctic penal colony since returning to Russia in 2021 from Germany, where he had been treated after being poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 14 Feb. 2026
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“Penal colony.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penal%20colony. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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