The collaborators of
Alexei
Navalny
, the opponent of
Vladimir Putin
who died in recent days in a prison in the far north of Russia, have announced that the authorities have denied the dissident's family access to his body for the third consecutive day.
The
Kremlin
replies that it has no competence on the issue and also rejects what it calls 'crude statements' by Western countries.
"Alexei's mother and his lawyers arrived at the morgue early this morning. They were not allowed to enter. One of the lawyers was literally pushed out. When the staff was asked if Alexei's body was there, they did not responded":
Navalny's spokeswoman
Kira Yarmysh announced on social media
.
She also reported that the Russian authorities' investigation into Navalny's death "has been extended", according to what investigators told the mother of the dissident who died last Friday.
"It is unknown how long this will go on. The cause of death is still 'undetermined'. They lie, take time and don't even hide it," Kira Yarmysh wrote on X.
And the Kremlin has made it known that the investigation is still ongoing and for the moment there are no results.
In this regard, he called "crude" statements by Western countries about Navalny's death inadmissible until the results of the investigation are made public.
The spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said this, quoted by Russian agencies.
“In conditions in which there is no information, it is absolutely unacceptable to make, let's say, frankly crude statements,” Peskov said, according to Tass.
“This is not appropriate for government officials, from whose lips we heard such phrases. And these phrases, of course, cannot cause any harm to the head of our state, but they absolutely do not give a good image of those who make such statements,” Putin's spokesman further stated.
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Borrell (EU): 'Sanctions against those responsible for Navalny's death'
"Member States will certainly propose
sanctions against those responsible" for the death of the Russian dissident
, Alexei Navalny.
"Putin himself is responsible, but we can go down to the institutional structure of the prison system in Russia."
EU High Representative Josep Borrell
said this
on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council underway in Brussels.
"But - he pointed out - let's not forget who is really responsible for Navalny's death".
"We must send a message of support to the Russian opposition," also said Borrell, who announced that he will propose that the European Union's human rights sanctions regime be named after Navalny, "so that his name will be remembered forever."
For her part, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that the adoption of the thirteenth package of sanctions against Russia is underway, which will also take into account the consequences of the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.
"We are in the final stages, we hope to complete it soon" she added, specifying that the sanctioning measures will also concern drones.
"The Russian president - he added - is acting against freedom, the freedom of Ukraine, but also against the freedom of his own country. Alexei Navalny had to pay with his life for this brutality against freedom in Russia. Our thoughts are not I am alone with his family, with the many, many brave people around Alexei Navalny who are fighting for freedom in Russia, but we will also be here today with Yulia Navalnaya here in Brussels, because the spirit of freedom can never be undermined silence forever."
Hungary's silence, 'sanctions against Moscow a cosmetic solution'
"The European Union, suffering from war psychosis, only intends to obey Washington, the liberal media and NGOs by launching yet another package of sanctions" against Russia "certainly completely useless, which only serves as a cosmetic solution" in coinciding with the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
The Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, present at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, wrote this on Facebook.
Budapest has so far blocked the approval of the thirteenth EU sanctions package.
Silence on the death of Alexei Navalny, on which there was no reaction from Orban's government
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