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Poison killed Putin critic Navalny, wife says

 Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya takes part in a march of members of the Russian opposition in Berlin on March 1, 2025.

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

Navalny, 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 opposition.

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