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- At first, the politician’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh reported, with reference to a prison employee, that the Kremlin was holding Navalny’s body in Salekhard. According to her, the “colony employee” said that he was “taken there by investigators from the Investigative Committee” who were “conducting ‘research’ with him.”
- However, an hour later the information changed. Alexei's mother and lawyer arrived at the Salekhard morgue, but there they were told that they did not have the body of the politician.
- At the same time, Russian media found out that at the crossing between Labytnangi and Salekhard , on the only possible route from the colony, they noticed a motorcade. Four cars were caught on video surveillance cameras, including cars of the Federal Penitentiary Service.