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Alexei Navalny Goes On Hunger Strike, Russian Prison Service Responds

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Alexei Navalny Goes On Hunger Strike, Russian Prison Service Responds
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced on Wednesday that he has begun a hunger strike in prison in order to protest against the officials’ lack of care for his current ailments.

Navalny was arrested after returning to Russia from Germany where he had been seeking medical care after he was poisoned. He holds the Kremlin responsible for his poisoning although they have denied any involvement. United States intelligence officials have “concluded with high confidence that Navalny was poisoned last year with a banned nerve agent called Novichok by the Russian security services,” according to Politico.

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