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Watch: West ‘goes nuts’ blaming Russia for Navalny’s death

The activist’s passing is just an excuse for Washington to push for new sanctions, Russia’s ambassador to Washington has said.

The US reaction to the death in prison of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny is an attempt to meddle in the country’s internal affairs, Anatoly Antonov, Moscow’s ambassador to Washington, has said. He also rebuked the US for not trying to get to the bottom of the issue before making accusations.

Russian prison officials said that the 47-year-old Navalny died in a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle on Friday, saying that he collapsed after a walk, and resuscitation efforts failed to revive him. The exact cause of death remains unclear, although a source for RT Russian suggested that it was a blood clot. The Kremlin said that medical professionals were looking into the matter.

Numerous Western leaders were quick to suggest that Russia bears responsibility for the death. Navalny was often described as an ‘opposition leader’ for his participation in anti-government protests.

US President Joe Biden acknowledged that while “we don’t know exactly what happened… there is no doubt that the death of Navalny was a consequence of something that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and his thugs did.” US Vice President Kamala Harris also claimed that “Russia is responsible” for the activist’s passing.

On Saturday, Antonov described the barrage of accusations as a “flow of bile.”

“We have a feeling that the main goal for Washington is not to get to the bottom of the problem, no matter how sensitive it may be, but to hit our country harder,” the envoy noted, suggesting that the US was looking for an excuse to introduce new sanctions against Russia.

Acknowledging that “the death of a person is always a tragedy,” Antonov stressed that it was important to figure out all the details of Navalny’s death.

“However, local [US] politicians do not want to wait and have already blamed the Russian authorities,” he remarked.

According to the ambassador, Washington has no right to judge in the case.

“There is another attempt to interfere in the internal policy of the Russian Federation,” he said. Antonov called the US position “unacceptable” and urged America to focus on its own domestic problems.

The opposition figure was jailed in 2021 over a long-standing fraud case, and in 2023 he was sentenced to 19 years on charges of fomenting, financing and carrying out extremist activities and “rehabilitating” Nazi ideology.

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  1. My federal government is a killer. Killed the Southern states, killed the native Americans, killed our kids in wars we had no business in, killed the black family, pushed us to take experimental vaccine killing​ thousands.
    Choose your friends more wisely.

  2. So Navalny an ultra right wing extremist with less than 2% support in Russia is locked up in the Arctic for 19 year but big bad vlad still kills him? How stupid do these western leaders think we are! Their faux outrage is pathetic! Free Assange you hypocrites!!

  3. Incredible timing. Havent heard a pip squeak in the msm about navalny for 2 or 3 years. He kicks the bucket just as the Ukie Nazis are being routed and fleeing the Donbass this week.

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