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Putin spoke for about two hours, protecting a spread of key points.
However there was one title he refused to say – Alexei Navalny – Putin's most outstanding critic.
Navalny's demise in a Russian Arctic penal colony earlier this month sparked a worldwide outpouring of anti-Putin tributes and demonstrations, together with his supporters satisfied his demise was a political assassination.
A whole lot of individuals have been arrested in Moscow, St. Petersburg and different Russian cities for laying flowers in his reminiscence.
Navalny will probably be buried in Moscow on Friday. He was seen as a menace by the Kremlin for his means to deliver massive numbers of protesters into the streets to strike in opposition to the federal government.
In 2017, he was prevented from being within the common elections and his organizations have been banned by the Russian state.
In 2020, Navalny collapsed on a flight over Siberia. He was rushed for therapy to Germany the place exams confirmed he had been poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent.
The Kremlin has denied any involvement, though Putin has admitted that the state is preserving Navalny underneath surveillance.
Navalny returned to Moscow in 2021. He was instantly arrested.
He died in circumstances which have but to be totally established, however his widow Yulia Navalnaya insists that Putin is accountable.
