The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples found he was killed by poisoning while incarcerated in prison in February 2024.

Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable critic for years, died in mysterious circumstances while serving a 19-year prison sentence on a string of charges widely seen as retribution for his campaigning.

Before he was buried, his wife Yulia Navalnaya said his allies "were able to obtain and securely transfer biological samples of Alexei abroad".

She posted a video on X in which she said that biological material from Navalny was sent to two laboratories where the material was examined.

"These labs in two different countries reached the same conclusion: Alexei was killed. More

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