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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
Meh, it's not good, but it's no different anywhere else. Don't make an enemy of the regime and you might be ok. Anyone think the whole world is outraged by Epstein's "suicide" like they are about this one?

Bingo. Governments have been killing inconvenient citizens for millennia. Doesn’t make it ok, but neither is this new, or distinctly just a Putin thing.

Of course Putin eliminated him. How many millions did Joe Stalin eliminate. BTW it is only third world care if you cannot pay for medical services. If you have the money they have the medical care available.

Ukaine's Intel Chief: "Navalny Died of Blood Clot"

"Ukraine's intelligence says cause of Russian oppositionist's death aligns with initial assertions made by Kremlin."

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The KYIV POST just reported a statement by Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine's Military Intelligence, that the imprisoned Russian dissident, Alexei Navalny died of a blood clot.

“I may disappoint you, but as far as we know, he indeed died as a result of a blood clot. And this has been more or less confirmed,” Budanov told journalists on the sidelines at the “Ukraine. Year of 2024” forum on Sunday.

Coming so soon on the heels of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin—who makes President Biden look like a special needs kindergartner—Navalny’s death is indeed suspicious. However, because his death was so quickly proclaimed in the West to be a homicide directed by Putin, I wondered if, in fact, it was a homicide engineered by U.S. or Ukrainian intelligence to make Putin look like the villain.

That Ukrainian intelligence is now concurring with the Kremlin’s declaration of natural causes is an interesting plot twist.

The only thing that seems almost certain is that whatever is going on in Russia and in Ukraine is NOT being accurately reported in the American legacy media.


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HUR Chief Budanov Says Seems Navalny Died of Detached Blood Clot

Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has said that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of a blood clot.

“I may disappoint you, but as far as we know, he indeed died as a result of a blood clot. And this has been more or less confirmed,” Budanov told journalists on the sidelines at the “Ukraine. Year of 2024” forum on Sunday.

"This wasn't sourced from the internet, but, unfortunately, natural [causes],” he added.

Earlier Navalny’s team, reported that his body was finally handed to his mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, after more than a week since his demise in a remote Arctic colony.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, died on February 16 in one of Russia's toughest prisons in northern Siberia.

He was serving a 19-year sentence on charges denounced by Putin's critics as political retribution for his opposition activity.

"Alexei's body was handed over to his mother," a spokesperson for Navalny's team, Kira Yarmysh said on X, formerly Twitter.

"Many thanks to all those who demanded this with us."

For a week, Russian officials had refused to give Lyudmila Navalnaya custody of her son's body.

She had travelled to the town of Salekhard in the Yamalo-Nenets region, the nearest settlement to the prison colony where Navalny died, to recover it.

His team has already argued that the Kremlin was trying to block a public funeral, which could turn into a show of support for Navalny's movement and his opposition to Putin.

The Russian leader, who famously never said Navalny's name in public, has not commented on the death of his most vocal critic.

His spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has criticised statements by Navalny's wife and Western leaders blaming Putin for his death as "vulgar".

Initially, Russian authorities claimed Navalny's death resulted from "natural causes" following his loss of consciousness during a walk in the prison colony dubbed "Polar Wolf."

His team denounced officials' initial refusal to release his body -- their refusal for days to let his mother even see it -- accusing them of trying to "cover their tracks".

You know it won't be believed

Won't surprise me at all if true, if that can even be confirmed. Seemed odd that Putin would get rid of him now. He had plenty of chances in the past, and with him locked up could do it essentially at his will. So why now? Maybe the simplest explanation is correct. He died of natural causes. Of course that in no way exonerates Putin of culpability.

The banal truth: the bane of conspiracy theorists.