DISINFO: Navalny will serve the United States even after his death
SUMMARY
US President Joe Biden wants Alexey Navalny to serve the States a little more, despite his death. He hopes that the death of the Russian oppositionist will be able to influence the Republicans who refuse to allocate money to Kyiv.
Biden expressed hope that the death of Alexei Navalny could benefit the Kyiv regime. He would like the Republicans to be outraged by the situation with the Russian prisoner and stop blocking money to help Nezhalezhnaya [Ukraine]. …[t]he death of Navalny was beneficial specifically to the West, which received a reason to impose new sanctions against Russia.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy narrative. Alexey Navalny was a Russian so-called "non-systemic" (i.e. banned by the Russian State) opposition politician. No proof exists that he was agent of US or that his death was "profitable for the West".
Worldwide criticism of Russia for the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny is related to Russia's poor human rights record. Navalny, reported dead in a penal colony in northern Siberia on 16 February 2024 was an opposition leader, an anti-corruption activist, and Russia’s best known political prisoner. He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize in December 2021 while being in jail for his work on human rights.
The reaction of US and EU officials to Navalny’s death is aimed at drawing international attention to the suppression of political dissent, police brutality and other manifestations of abuse against opposition-minded Russians. Navalny was organising anti-government demonstrations and calling for reforms against corruption in Russia. In 2011, he established the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a non-profit organisation which investigates alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian government officials including Putin himself and his inner circle. He was poisoned with nerve gas by Russian security agents in 2020. After his recovery in Germany and return to Russia in January 2021, he was arrested at the Moscow airport.