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On the second anniversary of his death, Lyudmila Navalnaya says her son did not "simply die in prison".
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On Saturday, the UK and European allies put out a statement saying Navalny, who died in 2024, was killed using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin, and that "only the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin".
"This confirms what we knew from the very beginning," Lyudmila Navalnaya said while visiting her son's grave in Moscow on Monday - the second anniversary of his death. "We knew that our son did not simply die in prison, he was murdered."
"Of course, we do not accept such accusations. We disagree with them, we consider them biased and unfounded. And, in fact, we resolutely reject them," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
Navalny's widow Yulia has also marked the two-year anniversary of his death, writing in a social media post: "We have achieved truth and we will achieve justice one day too."
She previously said that analysis of smuggled biological samples carried out by laboratories in two countries showed that her husband had been "murdered", and challenged the facilities to publish their results.
The Kremlin did not comment on her statements at the time.
Dozens of Muscovites, as well as several foreign diplomats, visited Borisovskoye cemetery on Monday, heaping flowers on Navalny's grave.
A note left on the grave read: "Alexei, we remember you every day".
Navalny was 47 when he died in the Siberian penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence for "extremism".
A fierce and charismatic critic of President Vladimir Putin, he mounted campaigns highlighting high-level corruption in government, bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets and becoming known abroad as Russia's only opposition leader.
He survived a suspected poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent in 2020, for which he received treatment in a German hospital. He returned to Russia the following
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