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Putin says he agreed to swap Alexei Navalny with prisoners held in the West
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Navalny’s supporters have alleged that Putin had him killed to thwart an imminent prisoner swap that would have freed him and two Americans.
Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, who is in Berlin, was offered the chance to come to Russia and see her husband, but she chose to stay abroad, Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, later told NBC News.
Navalny, a lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner who led opposition to Putin for more than a decade, spent his last days in a Russian penal colony above the Arctic Circle.
He was taken to Germany for treatment and was arrested after he returned to Russia — spending his final years behind bars following a conviction on extremism-related charges.
The next week, Biden announced more than 500 sanctions he said were designed to hold Russia accountable for Navalny’s death and for the country’s war with Ukraine.
The sanctions target people connected to Navalny’s imprisonment, as well as Russia’s financial and defense sectors, Biden said.
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