Sen. Mitt Romney
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“The corruption and lawlessness of the Putin regime are still being fully exposed to the world. “The detention of Navalny is another shameless attempt by Putin to silence the Russian people’s struggle for freedom and democracy,” Romney tweeted on Tuesday. “The United States must hold him accountable.”
The corruption and lawlessness of the Putin regime is still fully exposed to the world. The detention of Navalny is another shameless attempt by Putin to silence the Russian people’s struggle for freedom and democracy. The US must hold him accountable. https://t.co/KNfIFRtcJq
– Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) 19 January 2021
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Navalny fell ill on a domestic flight to Siberia last year and was rushed to a Berlin hospital, where he was placed in a medically induced coma. After being released from the hospital, the Russian prison agency informed him that he would violate the terms of a suspended sentence in 2014, unless he returned to Moscow immediately.
Officials told Navalny that if he returned to Russia later, he would be arrested. Navalny maintained that the conviction in 2014 for eclipse was politically motivated. Officials arrested him at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday.
The Kremlin has repeatedly denied poisoning Navalny and a presidential spokesman Vladimir Putin
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Last year, however, Navalny posed as an Kremlin intelligence officer and recorded a call in which an FSB toxicologist apparently confirmed that the poison had been applied to the inside of his underpants. Russia stuck to its denial after the recording was released.