According to his mother, Putin opponent Alexei Navalny passed away from "sudden death syndrome".

According to his mother, Putin opponent Alexei Navalny passed away from "sudden death syndrome"

After going for a stroll to the "Polar Wolf" prison colony in Kharap, around 1,900 kilometers northeast of Moscow, where he was serving a three-decade term, 47-year-old former lawyer Alexei Navalny fell and passed away on Friday. The prison service declared.

The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was informed on Saturday that her son had died from "sudden death syndrome" and that his corpse would not be sent to his family until the inquiry was finished, according to his team.

After walking to the "Polar Wolf" prison colony in Kharap, around 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, where he had been languishing for three decades, 47-year-old former lawyer Navalny fell and passed away on Friday. According to the prison service, the sentence.

Leading Western officials, including US President Joe Biden, praised Navalny's bravery and, without providing proof, charged President Vladimir Putin of being the cause of the tragedy. Britain warned that Russia will suffer as a result.

The West's response, according to the Kremlin, was "absolutely outrageous" and unacceptable. Putin hasn't yet addressed Navalny's death.

On Saturday, Lyudmila, Navalny's 69-year-old mother, passed away at minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees Celsius).Griffin went to the prison colony where her son had died, despite the bitter cold.

His official death notice said that he passed away on February 16 at 2:17 p.m. local time (0917 GMT), a Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh told Reuters.

"Surprisingly, the cause of Navalny's death was sudden death syndrome," Ivan Zhdanov, who oversees Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said on the social networking site X after Alexey's mother and lawyer arrived to the colony this morning.

The term "sudden death syndrome" is imprecise and refers to a number of cardiac syndromes that result in abrupt cardiac arrest and death.

It was also unclear, according to his team, where Navalny's corpse was. Although his mother was informed that the corpse had been transported to Salekhard, a town adjacent to the prison complex, the morgue was closed when she arrived.

Yarmysh alleged that the morgue claimed not to have Navalny's corpse when Navalny's attorney called them.

Although they had been informed previously that there had been no evidence of criminal activity, authorities later informed them that the corpse would not be released until the inquiry was over.

"At the moment we have no access to access to the body and we are unable to determine for sure where it is located. Therefore, we demand that the Russian authorities immediately give Alexei's body to his family," Yarmysh said in a telephone conversation.

According to a staff member at the only morgue in Salekhard, Navalny's corpse was still missing.

As Putin gets ready for an election that will put the former KGB agent in power until at least 2030, the charismatic and fearless leader of the divided Russian opposition, Navalny, passes away.

Supporters of Navalny, especially those in the West, have portrayed Navalny as a Russian Nelson Mandela, free to take over as leader of the nation one day.

Some Russians, however, rejected this strategy as a typical example of wishful thinking and cited a survey that revealed Putin was much more popular and that the majority of Russians disapproved of him.

Russian authorities see Navalny and his allies as radicals with ties to the CIA intelligence service who want to undermine Russia. Navalny has always denied any claims that he is an asset of the CIA.

dejection and melancholy

In Moscow and other Russian cities, several Russians honored Navalny with floral arrangements; nevertheless, hundreds of flowers and candles were taken out and placed in black bags over night.

A few dozen roses and carnations were still in the soft snow on Saturday at the Memorial to the Victims of Soviet Repression in downtown Moscow. The memorial is located in the shadow of the old KGB headquarters on Lubyanka Square.

On the Solovetsky Stone, named after the islands in the White Sea where the Bolsheviks constructed one of the earliest "Gulag" forced labor camps in 1923, 36-year-old Vladimir Nikitin was working alone, placing carnations on the stone.

Nikitin said, "Godless Navalny's death is a dash of hopes." "Navalny was a bold and very serious individual who is no longer with us. He was quite risky in telling the truth since some individuals did not like the truth."

Some Russians placed flowers next to pictures of Navalny at the "Wall of Sorrow" memorial on the road named for Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov. "We will neither forget nor forgive," said one statement.

Since Navalny's death was made public, over 270 individuals have been detained during gatherings and memorials around Russia, according to the protest monitoring organization OVD-Info.

Opponents of Putin said that Navalny's death demonstrated the danger that Putin's Russia had risen to thirty-two years after the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991 amid optimism for a brighter future.

Yarmysh, a spokesman for Navalny, said, "Alexey was murdered; he did not die." He said that his vision would endure.

"Our ideas and beliefs did not disappear, even though we lost our leader."