Russian Duma speaker accuses US and EU of killing Alexei Navalny [Video]

The speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament is accusing the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, and other groups of killing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin made a long series of unsubstantiated accusations via social media and messaging app Telegram. 

“Washington and Brussels are to blame for Navalny’s death,” Volodin said, according to translations from the Moscow Times. “Who benefits from Navalny’s death today?”

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“All their names are known: from the Secretary General of NATO and the U.S. leadership to [German Chancellor Olaf] Scholz, [British Prime Minister Rishi] Sunak and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky — they’re the perpetrators of Navalny’s death,” he added, according to the Moscow Times.

Navalny was being held at the IK-3 penal colony, also known as “Polar Wolf,” in Kharp, which is considered one of the country’s toughest prisons.

The country’s prison agency announced Friday that the prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir …