Navalny's Mother Demands Justice as European Probe Confirms Poisoning in Opposition Leader's Death
On the second anniversary of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in an Arctic penal colony, his mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, expressed vindication and called for justice following a recent assessment by five European countries concluding that he was poisoned. Speaking to reporters, including AFP, outside the Borisovo Cemetery in Moscow where Navalny is buried, Lyudmila Navalnaya stated: "We knew that our son did not simply die in prison, he was murdered." She added, "I think it will take some time, but we will find out who did it. Of course, we want this to happen in our country, and we want justice to prevail." The comments came after Britain, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands issued a joint statement on Saturday, February 14, 2026, asserting that laboratory analyses of samples from Navalny's body "conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine," a lethal neurotoxin found in the skin of South American poison dart frogs...