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Putin was talking for about two hours, protecting a variety of key points.
However there was one identify he refused to say – Alexei Navalny – Putin’s most distinguished critic.
Navalny’s loss of life in a Russian Arctic penal colony earlier this month sparked a worldwide outpouring of tributes and anti-Putin demonstrations, together with his supporters satisfied his loss of life was a political assassination.
A whole lot of individuals have been detained in Moscow, St Petersburg and different Russian cities for laying flowers in his reminiscence.
Navalny might be buried in Moscow on Friday. He was seen as a menace by the Kremlin for his capability to carry massive numbers of protesters to the streets to rail towards the federal government.
In 2017, he was barred from standing within the normal election and his organisations have been banned by the Russian state.
In 2020, Navalny collapsed on a flight over Siberia. He was rushed for therapy in Germany the place exams proved he had been poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok.
The Kremlin denied any involvement, though Putin admitted that the state was holding Navalny underneath surveillance.
Navalny returned to Moscow in 2021. He was instantly detained.
He died underneath circumstances but to be totally established, however his widow Yulia Navalnaya insists that Putin is accountable.