Russian President Vladimir Putin has promoted a high-ranking prison officer several days after the death of leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny. The deputy head of the FSIN prison authority, Valery Boyarinev, was was promoted to colonel general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was established by Navalny, wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday that Boyarinev was personally responsible for Navalny's torture in prison. "This must be u
Russia has rejected a call by Germany to fully clarify the circumstances of the death of opposition figure Alexei Navalny in a Siberian prison camp, saying that amounted to meddling in its internal affairs. "German representatives were informed that this situation is an exclusively internal affair of the Russian side, which, as has already been explained, will conduct a proper professional investigation in such cases," the Russian embassy in Berlin wrote on Telegram on Monday. It comes after the