Biden met with Navalny’s family

The White House announced in a statement Thursday night that the meeting took place in California, and Biden expressed his “heartfelt condolences” to Navalny’s family.

The White House added that during this meeting, Biden praised Navalny’s “incredible courage and his legacy in fighting corruption and fighting for a free and democratic Russia”.

According to Reuters, Biden also stated while talking to reporters that Washington plans to impose sanctions against Russia and President Vladimir Putin in connection with Navalny’s death.

Last Friday, Ryanovsti news agency quoted Russian judicial sources as saying: Navalny, who was serving his sentence in a prison in the Yamalo-Nenets region of Russia, on Friday 27 February 1402, after a walk, felt uncomfortable and immediately regained consciousness. lost.

According to this report, the medical staff of the prison intervened to revive him and an emergency medical team was called; They tried to revive Navalny, but they did not succeed.

Navalny, a well-known critic of the Russian government, who was imprisoned due to previous convictions, was sentenced to 19 years in prison on August 13 at the end of another trial.

47-year-old Navalny, who was introduced as Putin’s fiercest critic in the last decade, was sentenced to a total of 11 years and 6 months in prison for the crime of “fraud and disobeying court orders” in previous courts, and his organization was declared illegal as an “extremist organization”.