Vitali #Klitschko, the Mayor of #Kyiv told the #BBC it was a message to anyone "who had a different opinion to Putin or the Russian government that they will be killed or put into prison".
Lt.Gen Ben Hodges, a former Commander of US Land Forces in Europe, said he was not surprised, given the previous attempt on #Navalny ’s life, but it was still appalling news.
Former German chancellor Angela #Merkel who was instrumental in medevacing #Navalny after his poisoning to Germany: “I was extremely devastated to learn of the death of Alexei Navalny. He became a victim of repressive violence. It is appalling that the country's courageous, fearless and dedicated voice was suppressed by horrific methods."
More from Yulia Navalnaya 's statement: “I don’t know whether to believe this terrible news we've only received from govt sources, or not. For many years we cannot trust Putin and the #Putin government. They always lie. But if this is true, I want Putin and everyone around him to know that they'll be held accountable for everything they did to our country, to my family. This day will come very soon.
“I want to call on the international community and all people to unite and defeat this evil.”
Founder and ed in chief of Insider.ru, a #Russian investigative website, Roman Dobrokhotov following #Navalny's death:
"Since all sorts of security officials read me on duty, I want to convey: it is better to stop him now and be known as real patriots, than to wait and endure until the system destroys you all one by one, as always happens in such regimes, no matter what side you are on."
Yulia Navalnaya, Alexey #Navalny 's wife at the Munich Security Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTlZggZq4g "I call on all of you - we should come together and we should fight this evil, this horrific regime in #Russia . Vladimir #Putin should personally be held responsible for all the atrocities"
statement of the the Labytnangi town hospital on the death of Alexey #Navalny “The ambulance crew’s travel time took less than 7 minutes. Doctors got through the penal colony's territory to check on the patient in two minutes. The doctors who arrived at the scene continued the resuscitation measures that had already been provided by the colony’s doctors. And they spent more than half an hour. However, the patient died,” the hospital noted.
'Alexei Navalny was the Kremlin's most vocal critic. No doubt about that.
In fact, he was the only opposition leader in this country who had been capable of bringing large numbers of people, large numbers of protestors onto the streets across the country.
He got under the #Kremlin 's skin for sure and had accused the of trying to assassinate him back in 2020.'
and this is how Vladimir #Putin was talking at the Production and installation of metal structures exhibition in Stankomash Park shortly after learning about the death of Alexey #Navalny (he didn't mention him ofc): https://t.me/news_kremlin/3165
Alexey #Navalny 's mother, Lyudmila Ivanovna Navalnaya, on FB: “I don’t want to hear any condolences. We saw our son in the penal colony on the 12th of February, we had a meeting. He was alive, healthy, cheerful."
' #Navalny never abandoned his hope and belief in what his team called "the beautiful #Russia of the future" – the end of #Putin ’s long and repressive rule and the prospect of political change in his country.
But since Putin has launched a war on Ukraine, Navalny’s own organisation has been banned as "extremist", his team arrested, and all well-known critics of Putin have fled the country - or been imprisoned.
Today, those prisoners’ families, too, must be terrified.'
this is what he said in English: "My message for the situation when i am killed is very simple. Not give up." the he carries on in Russian - next post:
#Navalny in the #BBC Storyville documentary: (in the case of my death) "i have something very obvious to tell you: do not give up, you are not allowed to give up. if they decided to kill me it means we are incredibly strong. We need to utilise this power, to not give up, to remember we are a huge power that is being opressed by these bad dudes. we dont realise how strong we actually are. the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. so don't do nothing"
Acc to the #Russian investigative outlet Agenstvo MP's of United #Russia were told not to comment on Alexey #Navalny 's death or to quote the Federal Penitentiary Service
One of the last posts from Alexey #Navalny 's x feed from Valentine's day to his wife Yulia: "Kroshka (meaning: my little crumb, my baby), everything is like in the song with you: between us there are cities, the take-off lights of airfields, blue snowstorms and thousands of kilometres. But I feel that you are near every second, and I love you more and more"
President of #Moldova , Maia Sandu on the death of #Navalny (on X): "The death of Alexei @navalny in a Russian prison is a stark reminder of the regime’s appalling oppression of dissent.
My heartfelt thoughts go out to his family, all democratically-minded Russians, and those bravely fighting for freedom and democracy within Russia and abroad."