The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has offered new evidence for what most already suspect: The Kremlin murdered her husband.

Count it as one more reason Russia will be far better off when Vladimir Putin no longer holds the reins of power.

On Wednesday, Yulia Navalnaya reported that samples from her husband’s body, sent to two labs outside of Russia after his death in an Arctic penal colony in 2024, both indicate that Alexei had been poisoned.

That’s a lot more believable than Russian authorities’ claim that he died of “sudden death syndrome.”

By refusing to stay quiet, Yulia is putting her own life and freedom on the line: Alexei was just the latest of many fierce and fearless Putin critics to end up imprisoned, dead or both over the years.

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