'He Speaks With Difficulty': Navalny's Wife Says She's Growing More Concerned For His Health

[Rogue Valley]

'He Speaks With Difficulty': Navalny's Wife Says She's Growing More Concerned For His Health

The wife of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says she is growing more concerned over his health as the toll of prison life and a hunger strike mounts.

www.rferl.org

4/13/21
The wife of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says she is growing more concerned over his health as the toll of prison life and a hunger strike mounts. Yulia Navalnaya said in a post on Instagram that she visited the Kremlin critic on April 13 at the prison where he is serving 2 1/2 years for an embezzlement conviction widely considered as politically trumped-up. Navalnaya said the two spoke via telephone and could see each other through a glass barrier in what she called "the best date of my life." "He is just as cheerful and fun. But he speaks with difficulty and from time to time hangs up and lies down on the table to rest," she wrote in the post, noting his weight was down to 76 kilograms, 17 less than when he entered the notorious Correctional Colony No. 2, about 100 kilometers from Moscow. "I know that he is not going to give up.... But after the visit with Aleksei, I worry about him even more," she added.

Navalny has lost 37 pounds since arriving at the penal colony. Is having trouble speaking and walking. He may also have contracted tuberculosis.

The Putin government will not allow Navalny's personal doctor or foreign doctors to examine him. Assassination via imprisonment.

 

[Ringo Stalin]

Apparently, all the diseases invented by Navalny - legs, tuberculosis, coronavirus-are nothing more than a pathetic attempt to attract attention. They quickly forget about him, so he have to invent it. What are the next diagnoses?

 

[Rogue Valley]

No one knows with certainty because no doctors are allowed to examine Mr. Navalny.

All we have is Mr. Navalny own words as told to his lawyer and wife.